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Breathing
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Does the blood transports nutrients and oxygen to organs and body tissues?
First, you inhale air (oxygen) through your nose or mouth. Then it travels down your trachea to your lungs, which have bronchioles and capillaries. There are de-oxygenated blood cells in your capillaries waiting for oxygen to to replace the carbon dioxide, which you will breathe out. The de-oxygenated blood travels through the veins to the heart and the heart pumps out oxygenated blood through the arteries to the rest of the body.
Where in the body would the concentration of oxyhaemoglobin be at its highest?
oxyhemoglobin (hemoglobin bound to oxygen) is highest in the alveolar venule. This is the initial vessel carrying freshly-oxygenated blood away from the alveolus, which is the air-sac in the lung where gases are exchanged.
The need for air is?
we need air to breath and supply oxegen to our blood.
How does ionization clean the air?
All particles in the air have a positive or negative charge. The ionization unit pumps positive or negative ions into the existing air supply. These ions bind to the junk in the air. This makes that new complex heavy enough to fall to the floor where it stays. These will not then be breathed in and contaminate your body.
What happens as the air enters the nose or mouth?
The air is:- heated (to body temperature)- cleansed (foreign particles attach to the mucosa of the nasal cavity and thusly removed before they reach the lungs).- moistened (the humidity of the air increases)All of these mechanism are designed to help the lungs to a better supply of air.
What takes air in to your body?
Breathing. Inhaling oxygenated air through our nostrils.
What is the lungs purpose?
The lungs take in oxygenated air and gets it to the blood. It then releases the carbon dioxide out of your body.
How do the lungs interact with the circulatory system even though they are considered part of the respiratory system?
The purpose of the lungs is to get oxygen into the body and carbon dioxide out of it. It does this by having a generous supply of blood capillaries surrounding each alveolus. When fresh air is drawn into the alveolus oxygen diffuses through into the capillaries and carbon dioxide diffuses the other way. The capillaries are constantly supplied with de-oxygenated blood from the body and the oxygenated blood travels away to the heart and round the body.
What do the lungs control?
The lungs transfer oxygen from the air that you breath into your bloodstream. The heart then pumps oxygenated blood throughout the body.
What are the functions of alveoli?
Alveoli are tiny sacs in the lungs that perform gas exchange. That is the main process of respiration where the body gets rid of carbon dioxide and picks up oxygen which is used in metabolism. They have supply of oxygenated and de-oxygenated blood surrounding their surface giving them a high blood supply. They also have thin walls and a moist surface. This is all required for them to work correctly.
What are the ways oxygen and carbon dioxide are transported to the blood?
Air fills lungs, heart pumps non-oxygenated blood to the lungs via arteries where it becomes oxygenated flows back to the heart and flows through the body .....
Do the lungs breathe in oxygenated air?
Yes they do
Does oxygenated water have air in it?
It has dissolved oxygen.
What components does the oxygenated air have?
Air is roughly 80% Nitrogen and 20% Oxygen.
What can a otter do to replenish the layer of lost air?
they roll over in the water.
Does earthworm help to replenish oxygen in the air?
In a way, yes because they are making trees and plants grow bigger and stronger and then they replenish the oxygen in the air. Hope I helped! Contributors trust please. :D
When does blood become oxygenated?
Blood becomes oxygenated when you breath and air goes in to your longs and thn true your blood. That is all
