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Respondus LockDown Browse Note: It is recommended that you save t your response as you complete each question Question 1 (1 point) 。 A child has swallowed a coin. It is likely the coin would be lodged in the to its larger diameter and steeper angle. bronchus due SELECT ANY APPROPRIATE ANSWERS left secondary alveolar duct left primary right secondary right primary Save Question 2 (1 point) Henry's Law states, gases will dissolve into liquids in proportion to their partial pressures. While this is true, the solubility of a gas in the liquid and the temperature of the liquid also

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Question 1:

CORRECT ANSWER: Right primary

EXPLANATION: Any foreign objects inhaled is usually struck in the right primary bronchus and enters into the right side lung. It is because of the anatomy and gravitational effect on right lung. The left lung is smaller than the right lung because the heart occupies part of the left side. The right main bronchus is large and more vertically oriented. This is why the coin logged in right primary bronchus than the left.

Question 2:

CORRECT ANSWER: Dissolved in the blood plasma( liquid) as bicarbonate

EXPLANATION: Most of the carbon dioxide in the blood is in the form of bicarbonate. Carbon dioxide in the blood reacts with plasma ( water) to form bicarbonate.

CO2 + H2o ------------- HCO3- + H+

CO2 - carbondicarbon

H2o - water

HCO3- bicarbonate

* 70% of CO2 is carried by plasma in the form of bicarbonate.

* 23% of CO2 is carried by RBC as carbaminohaemoglobin.

*7% of CO2 is carried by plasma in Dissolved form.

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