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What is a chemical that carries oxygen and carbon dioxide?
Hemoglobin
What makes blood red and carries oxygen?
Iron.
What element carries oxygen in the blood?
iron(Fe)
Which type of engine carries its own supply of oxygen?
A rocket has it's own supply of oxygen.
What part of the blood carries oxygen?
The red blood cells carry the oxygen in blood.
Is the tube that carries blood oxygen and nutrients from the placenta to the developing child.?
umbilical cord
What provides food and oxygen for a developing embryo?
The Placenta uses a the process of diffusion to diffuse the nutrients from the mothers blood into the babies. Then the umbilical cord carries the nutrients to the baby to the Placenta. Answer is Placenta
Does an umbilical artery carry oxygen?
No, Umbilical arteries take deoxygenated blood from the fetus to the placenta, it is the umbilical vein carries the oxygenated blood from the placenta to the futus.
What process carries oxygen to and carbon dioxide away from cells?
Respiration is the process that carries oxygen to the cells and removes carbon dioxide from them. Blood carries the oxygen to the cells.
What structure carries blood between the fetus and the placenta?
Umbilical Cord
What is the placentas role?
The placenta provides your developing baby with a supply of blood, oxygen, and nutrients vital to a healthy baby! The placenta is fully developed by your 18th week of pregnancy. The placenta also carries waste including carbon dioxide away from your baby. The quality of function of your placenta is dependent upon how healthy you are, this is why it is important to keep your blood and oxygen as clean as possible especially during pregnancy (which is why you should not drink or smoke during pregnancy). The placenta keeps harmful materials away from your baby including infections but the body does not always recognize these harmful substances which is another reason you should not drink,smoke or take drugs during pregnancy.
What pumps the blood away from the heart and carries oxygen?
arteries
How are nutrients and oxygen passed to the foetus and waste taken away?
Everything is supplied and filtered by the placenta.
The name of the cell that carries oxygen to the cells and carries away carbon dioxide is called what?
There ain't none ... the red blood cells carry oxygen to the cells, CO2 is carried away in the plasma.
How does the placenta acts as the lungs for the foetus?
the blood from the mother runs alongside the blood from the foetus ;the mother's blood carries food and oxygen to the baby .The oxygen reachs the lungs and carbon dioxide +waste exits through the umbilical cord . Although they run beside each other they never mix.
How nutrients oxygen and waste are exchanged between the fetus and the mother?
how nutrients,oxygen and waste are exchange between the fetus and the mother
What is the placenta used for?
The placenta provides your developing baby with a supply of blood, oxygen, and nutrients vital to a healthy baby! The placenta is fully developed by your 18th week of pregnancy. The placenta also carries waste including carbon dioxide away from your baby. The quality of function of your placenta is dependent upon how healthy you are, this is why it is important to keep your blood and oxygen as clean as possible especially during pregnancy (which is why you should not drink or smoke during pregnancy). The placenta keeps harmful materials away from your baby including infections but the body does not always recognize these harmful substances which is another reason you should not drink, smoke or take drugs during pregnancy.
