AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The characteristics of salamanders are as followed: They have soft, wet skin like a frog to adapt in a wet environment. They lay spawns where the tadpoles will hatch like frogs. Also, they have gills, lungs for respiration in water and land respectively.

Detailed explanation-2: -Amphibians are small vertebrates that need water, or a moist environment, to survive. The species in this group include frogs, toads, salamanders, and newts. All can breathe and absorb water through their very thin skin. Amphibians also have special skin glands that produce useful proteins.

Detailed explanation-3: -Amphibians can also breathe through their moist, porous skin, and, in fact, several salamander species and one kind of frog have neither gills nor lungs: They get all of their oxygen through their skin.

Detailed explanation-4: -How do amphibians breathe? Most amphibians breathe through lungs and their skin. Their skin has to stay wet in order for them to absorb oxygen so they secrete mucous to keep their skin moist (If they get too dry, they cannot breathe and will die).

Detailed explanation-5: -The lungs of amphibians are simple saclike structures that internally lack the complex spongy appearance of the lungs of birds and mammals. The lungs of most amphibians receive a large proportion of the total blood flow from the heart.