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2 July, 06:19

Why would we want to study mass specific gill surface areas instead of simply comparing absolute gill surface areas among the fish species?

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  1. 2 July, 06:28
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    Because rates of respiration and blood-oxygen diffusion would vary from species-to-species in fish, and by studying this via the mass of various fish we could determine the laws concerning gill-based respiration and blood oxygenation in fish of various sizes.
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