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Description: As shown in this house fly, air enters holes called spiracles. Oxygen diffuses directly from the fluid-filled tracheole tips to cells that come into contact with the tips. The circulatory system plays no role in gas exchange. The micrograph illustrates a few branching tracheoles.
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