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Q: Carbon dioxide is to what as lungs are to lungs?
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What gas is exhaled from the lungs?

carbon dioxide


How do lungs remove its carbon dioxide?

In lungs alveoli is present where exchange of gases takes place, when blood with carbon dioxide is reached lungs then these alveoli purify by removing carbon dioxide


How does the carbon dioxide get out of the bloodstream back into his lungs to breathed out?

The carbon dioxide is exhaled.


Which organ do we excrete most of our carbon dioxide from?

Carbon dioxide is excreted from the lungs.


Do the lungs take carbon dioxide from the blood?

No. Your lungs pass oxygen into the blood and also pass carbon dioxide to the air outside your body. Oxygen combines with carbon to form carbon dioxide. This happens in our muscles, among other places.


What is the concentration of oxygen in the lungs normally compared to carbon dioxide?

what is the concentration of oxygemnin the lungs normally compared to carbon dioxide


Where is carbon dioxide found in blood?

Hemoglobin carries oxygen from the lungs to the body and carbon dioxide back from the body to the lungs.


Does the respiratory system rid the body of carbon dioxide?

Blood containing carbon dioxide flows from veins throughout the body to the heart, and then the heart pumps it to the lungs. Small air sacs (alveoli) in the lungs remove the carbon dioxide from the blood and release it into the lungs where it is exhaled.


Where does blood get rid of carbon dioxide?

No. The red blood cells get oxygen at the lungs, not drop off carbon dioxide.


Why must carbon dioxide be breathed out?

carbon dioxide has to be breathed out because it can be harnful to the lungs


What is the ratio of oxygen to carbon dioxide in the lungs?

2/100 percent to the carbon dioxide


Which organ in the body gets rid of carbon dioxide?

Carbon dioxide is expelled from our lungs.