What is characteristic of adult frog respiration?

a. Drawing water by inhalation across their gills
b. Countercurrent exchange
c. Sucking air into their lungs using chest muscles
d. Drawing in air by lowering their mouth floor
e. Gills

2. What substance do the secretory cells in the lung release?

a. Carbon dioxide
b. Myoglobin
c. Surfactant
d. Carbonic anhydrase
e. Oxyhemoglobin

3. The major divisions of the peripheral nervous system are the .

a. afferent and autonomic systems
b. sympathetic and parasympathetic systems
c. somatic and autonomic systems
d. cranial and skeletal nerves
e. peripheral and central systems

1. The characteristic thing about adult frog breathing is that drawing in air by lowering their mouth floor (option d).

2. The substance released by the lung secretory cells is the surfactant (option c).

3. The main divisions of the peripheral nervous system are the somatic and autonomic systems.

Explanation:

1. Breathing of the adult frog

The adult frog - while out of the water - uses a nasal breath, propelling air into its throat and oral cavity. The air content in the frog's mouth causes the internal pressure of the cavity to increase, and the floor of the mouth is modified to allow the passage of air to the lungs.

Under water, the frog's breath is cutaneous, that is, through its skin.

Adult frogs do not have gills or respiratory muscles.

2. Pulmonary surfactant

Pulmonary surfactant is a substance produced and secreted by the pulmonary epithelium, specifically by type II pneumonocytes. The function of the surfactant is to keep the pulmonary alveoli open to allow gas exchange.

The surfactant is a substance of a lipidic and proteic nature that helps reduce the surface tension of the water, which in the socket prevents closure when the air is exhaled.

Another function is to prevent the germs - viruses and bacteria - present in the air from passing from the alveolus to the bloodstream.

3. Divisions of the peripheral nervous system

The peripheral nervous system is dependent on the central nervous system and is made up of all the nerves that go to each of the tissues and organs of the body. It is divided into somatic and autonomic nervous systems.

Somatic nervous system is composed of nerves that drive nerve impulses to skeletal muscles, being predominantly voluntary. The involuntary response in this system is due to the existence of reflex arcs, whose center of integration is the spinal cord. Autonomic nervous system is responsible for the innervation of coughs the internal organs, allowing their function under the coordination of the central nervous system. It is an involuntary system and is subdivided into sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.

The integration of both systems, somatic and autonomic, allows a body to perform all its functions, including the function of relationship, alertness and maintenance of organic homeostasis.

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The answer is b, as with an inference you make a statement with no evidence