NEET UG BIOLOGY MCQ: BREATHING AND EXCHANGE OF GASES

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Contraction of external inter costal muscles increases the volume of lungs along Antero-posterior axis in rabbit.

Option A (Contraction of external intercostals muscles in man causes expansion of lungs along the Antero-posterior axis) is incorrect because contraction of external intercostals muscles in man causes expansion of lungs along the dorso-ventral axis, not the antero-posterior axis.

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