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During the transportation gases, to maintain the ionic balance chloride ions shifts from

Updated On: Apr 18, 2024
  • RBC's to plasma
  • Plasma to RBC
  • Lungs to blood
  • Blood to lungs
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During the internal respiration, the carbon dioxide in gaseous form diffuses out of the cells into the capillaries. The largest fraction of $CO_2$ is converted to bicarbonate ions ($HCO_3^-$) in the RBCs. The bicarbonate ions are quite diffusible, therefore, they diffuse from RBCs into the plasma. To maintain ionic balance chloride ($Cl^-$) ions move from the plasma into the RBCs. This ionic exchange is called chloride shift.
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Concepts Used:

Breathing and Exchange of Gases

A metabolic process, which is carried out by all living organisms including plants, animals, and humans for the production of energy and to stay alive is Respiration.  Except for required anaerobes, every other organism from amoeba to humans needs oxygen for survival. And evolution has reported a number of systems that allows the exchange of gases in organisms.

There are two types of respiration such as;

  1. Aerobic respiration — to produce energy, it occurs in the presence of oxygen
  2. Anaerobic respiration — to produce energy, occurs in the absence of oxygen

Breathing can be simply derived as the process of inhaling oxygen gas from the atmosphere and exhaling the carbon dioxide gas back into the atmosphere is termed breathing and the process is commonly known as respiration.

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