The Exchange of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Between the Air

question 49

Multiple Choice

The exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the air in the alveoli and blood in the lungs is called

• A) ventilation.
• B) systemic respiration.
• C) internal respiration.
• D) external respiration.
• E) cellular respiration.

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Definitions:

Z-statistic

A statistical measurement that represents the number of standard deviations a data point is from the mean of a data set.

Parametric Tests

Statistical tests based on assumptions about the distribution of the data (e.g., that it is normally distributed).

Nonparametric Test

A statistical test used when the assumptions for parametric tests are not met, not requiring the population's distribution to follow any specific distribution.

Mann-Whitney U Test

A nonparametric test used to compare differences between two independent groups when the dependent variable is either ordinal or continuous, but not normally distributed.