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Yes - oxygen is held in red blood cells (in haemoglobin to be precise). As the blood flows, oxygen is brought all around the body and eventually gets back to the heart and lungs as carbon dioxide (which is what you exhale).
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 14y agoNo- but it DOES move oxygen from your lungs to the rest of your body. If it could produce oxygen, you would not need to breathe.
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∙ 13y agoThe blood does have a small amount of oxygen dissolved in it, but most of the oxygen carried by the blood is attached to the hemoglobin in the red blood cells.
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∙ 10y agoNo. The reverse is true. Oxygen is carried from lungs to the body.
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Why the body needs oxygen?
The brain needs a lot of oxygen. The air goes in your lungs and the oxygen is carried by the blood straight to the brain. Not enough oxygen to the brain = you die.
Do plant produce when they have no oxygen?
Yes, plants produce oxygen and need carbon dioxide and sunlight to produce food.
Reacts with oxygen to produce rust?
Iron reacts with oxygen to produce rust.
From where does the blood get oxygen?
The blood gets oxygen from the air around us which is made of oxygen. When we breath in, the oxygen is taken into our lungs and then into our blood.
How do plankton participate in the oxygen cycle?
They produce oxygen during photosynthesis.
What does oxygen do as a component of blood?
Oxygen is used to produce ATP in the mitochondria, which powers our cells to do its functions.
What does the body cells need?
2 things:Cells need blood and oxygen to produce.
What does blood produce?
Blood does not produce anything. Red blood cells and white blood cells are produced in the marrow of bones. Blood then supplies oxygen and hormones to the body to insure the body works properly. Blood cells are bathed in plasma.
What happens when the blood reaches cells that do not have enough oxygen?
They die because they are unable to produce energy and function. And shrink
What color are blood cells when they have on oxygen?
The red blood cells themselves do not take any action to get more oxygen, but the kidneys sense a lack of oxygen and produce more erythropoietin (hormone responsible for producing red blood cells) and this in turn increases oxygen levels
Why the body needs oxygen?
The brain needs a lot of oxygen. The air goes in your lungs and the oxygen is carried by the blood straight to the brain. Not enough oxygen to the brain = you die.
Why muscles must have blood pumped to them?
because in order to keep functioning your muscles need oxygen that carried by the blood, to produce ATP.
Is there bad oxygen?
Yes. Breathing pure oxygen produce high blood pressure and can result in the retina of the eye becoming detached and blindness resulting.Ozone O3 is toxicMonatomic oxygen, O can result in the blood with people with certain blood disorders on exposure to sunlight and is very corrosive.
When there is less oxyhemoglobin in the blood red blood cells produce 23-DPG This metabolic product?
enhances oxygen unloading at the systemic capillaries
Does iron produce red blood cells?
No, you don't. Otherwise, vegetarians wouldn't exist as they wouldn't have any red blood cells to provide oxygen to breathe.
What happens to the carbon dioxide produce in the muscles?
It diffuses into capillaries in the muscle where red blood cells and the blood carry it to the lungs were it is released and oxygen takes its place in the blood.
Why is oxygen consumption lower for walking than running?
Running causes the body to produce more blood to make oxygen to obtain stamina while walking is a low energy exercise and the build up of more blood to produce oxygen is slower.
