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How does oxygen move from blood into body cells?
by diffusion
Why is oxygen important to blood and other cells?
Oxygen is needed for respiration. This is how all our cells release energy. All the body cells and white blood cells therefore need oxygen. Red blood cells don't use oxygen, they undergo anaerobic respiration, but they transport the oxygen needed by other cells.
How does oxygen reach the body's cells?
Through the blood. Oxygen is drawn in by the lungs, binds to hemoglobin proteins within erythrocytes (aka red blood cells), and the erythrocytes are then pumped by the heart throughout the body, supplying all cells with oxygen.
Where does the oxygen from air mix with blood?
Air will not touch your blood until it is release to outside the skin. In most veins at least. Wren oxygen touches the blood, it turns red, but normally is blue. Oxygen may be circulating in your veins, but will not mix with the blood cells. The above is only half true. Oxygen mixes with your blood in the capillaries inside your lungs. The blood then transfers over to your arteries where it travels the body to deliver the oxygen to your muscles and other organs.
What component of blood carries oxygen around the body?
The hemoglobin or "red cells".
What part of the body that finally deliver oxygen to the cells?
red blood cells
How does the red blood cell deliver nutrients to the body?
No, the red blood cells carry oxygen.
What does the white and blood cell do?
White Blood cells help fight bacteria and red blood cells deliver oxygen to your body.
Which cells picks up oxygen in the lungs and deliver it to all the cells throughout the body?
Red blood cells
What do red blood cells provide?
They construct and carry out the biochemical mechanisms that deliver oxygen to the body's Cells.
Delivery of oxygen and nutrients?
Blood cells deliver oxygen and nutrients through the rest of the body. Blood is pumped through the lungs to collect oxygen.
The blood delivers food that has been broken down into simple substances to the cells of the body what else does the blood deliver to the cells?
it delivers oxygen :)
What is the purpose of red blood cells?
They deliver oxygen to the body tissues via the blood.
Does the circulatory system give oxygen into the body?
Kind of, the body system that is most known for that is the respiratory system, but the red blood cells do deliver oxygen to the muscles.
What system forms red blood cells?
The Musculo-Skeletal System creates red blood cells! Red blood cells are created in the bone marrow. Red blood cells deliver oxygen to all cells of the body. :)
Do all red blood cells carry oxygen?
They all carry oxygen, which is recharged in the lungs. They deliver this oxygen throughout the body and have to pick up more.
What does blood deliver to the whole body?
Blood delivers oxygen.
