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it becomes oxygenated and travels through the pulmonary artery back to the heart where it then gets pumped to the body
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What happens to the oxygen when it reaches the blood?
As blood passes through lungs, there is exchange of oxygen and carbon bi oxide, from high concentration to low concentration and oxygen enters the blood from air to blood to make it oxygen rich.
What happens to the other gases in the air when we breathe in- where do they go?
You inhale them but your lungs only absorb the oxygen- they are exhaled again when you breathe out.
What happens when blood reaches tissues?
When blood reaches the tissues, cells, and organs via the capillaries, materials diffuse across the capillary wall so that the cells, tissues, and organs receive nutrients and oxygen, and eliminate wastes.
What organs supply blood with oxygen in mammals?
the lungs supply the blood with oxygen, within the lungs there are alveoli which have a very thin membrane which allows oxygen to pass into the capillaries that run into the lungs hope i helped
Where do red blood cells obtain oxygen?
The lungs, as blood passes through the lungs, they deposit carbon and receive oxygen.
What happens when fresh air containing oxygen reaches the lungs?
The red blood cells pick it up from the air and take it through the blood stream to the cells in the body.
What happens after the blood reaches the lungs and the lungs get rid of the excess wastes?
you breathe out xx
When you breath in what happens to your lungs?
When you inhale, you breath in oxygen and your lungs get bigger.
What happens to the oxygen when it reaches the alveoli?
oxygen enters the blood and carbon dioxide
Do the lungs bring oxygen into blood?
When air reaches lungs which has thousands small sacks called alveoli the oxygen is difussed to blood capillaries that line alveolar wall.
What does carbonic anhydrase break carbonic acid into when blood reaches the lungs?
bicarbonate and oxygen
What happens to the blood when it reaches the lungs?
The blood is oxygenated that is oxygen which has been inhaled is added to the blood and the blood then transports it to other body parts.
What happens to the oxygen when it reaches the cells?
it is used in metabolic process
Oxygen reaches all parts of an animals body when?
Oxygen reaches all parts of an animal's body when it inhales via the lungs, and the oxygen enters the blood stream. The heart then pumps these oxygenated blood cells to the rest of the body.
What happens when the blood reaches tissues or cells that do not have enough oxygen?
The oxyhaemoglobin will break down and oxygen will release. :)
What happens to the oxygen level in blood as it moves through the lungs?
the oxygen releases carbon dioxide
What happens to the oxygen levels in the blood as it moves through the lungs?
the oxygen releases carbon dioxide
