Essay On Ants Respiratory System

Ants Respiratory System

Respiratory system is important in every animal, when we think about respiratory we think about how most mammals breath. As humans, we inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide through our mouth and nose, and the oxygen moves to the trachea which is connected to the lungs, and allows the passage of air. But do you ever wonder how small insects such as ants, breath? They don 't have noses and their bodies are so small to contain lungs. Ants breath like any other insect, but out of curiosity I want to know more about them, they are an interesting insect, which we can see everyday in our life. Ants and most insects cannot go out of breath because they don 't have lungs like mammals, they also don 't have nose to breath

Tubes are parallel with chitin, which is a transparent, tough membranous protein material, and its function is to support the structure for the trachea. tracheae are branches everywhere throughout the ants’ bodies, tracheae of ants are different from the rest of insects, it works like a blood vessels in humans, so the oxygen reaches each cell in the ant’s body, and then the cells absorb it, then it releases the carbon dioxide as a waste into the tube, the cell which is in charge of the gas exchange is called tracheoles. Sometimes the terminal tips of the tracheoles are liquid filled, so the gas transport may occur in a liquid medium rather than air, oxygen then passes the tracheal walls, through the hemolymph, which is the body fluid. At the end the oxygen goes through the cytoplasm to the mitochondria. Carbon dioxide does the same, but in reverse. Gas exchange happens by pumping the thorax and the abdomen, carbon dioxide is removed either up or down, sometimes it can happen by squeezing it along its length, the pressure increases, so the carbon dioxide pushes out, by this way the amount of oxygen which will enter the tissue will also increases. When the ants are in rest this process don 't