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What is it called when your body picks up oxygen and gets rid of carbon dioxide?
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How does the circulatory help cells get rid of carbon dioxide and get oxygen?
Blood travels to the lungs and picks up oxygen. The oxygen replaces the carbon dioxide.
What carry hemoglobin that binds to oxygen and picks up wastse?
Carbon dioxide and oxygen
Where does the heart pump blood low in oxygen and high in carbon dioxide?
The heart pumps blood low in oxygen and high in carbon dioxide to the lungs, where blood releases carbon dioxide and picks up oxygen.
Where is oxygen switched with carbon dioxide?
Oxygen becomes carbon dioxide when it acts as a means of transporting carbon out of the cell. Oxygen (O2) is brought to any cell in the body by the bloodstream, where it picks up some of the cells carbon (C) waste. Hence, it becomes CO2, or carbon dioxide.
After the red blood gives oxygen it picks up what substance?
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Where in a mammal's body does oxygen enter the bloodstream?
Blood picks up oxygen and releases carbon dioxide in the lungs.
Where in a mammals's body does oxygen enter the bloodstream?
Blood picks up oxygen and releases carbon dioxide in the lungs.
What is carbon dioxide rich blood?
Carbon dioxide rich blood, which is red blood cells lacking oxygen but high in carbon dioxide concentration.These blood cells have circulated through the body and given up much of its oxygen while collecting waste carbon dioxide. The pulmonary artery carries this blood from the heart to the lungs, where it picks up a fresh supply of oxygen and eliminates carbon dioxide.
Where does oxygenation occur?
Oxygen exchanges occur in the lungs where the circulatory system takes in oxygen and releases carbon dioxide into the lungs. Oxygen exchanges also occur in the capillaries where the circulatory system delivers oxygen to the cells and picks up carbon dioxide from the cells.
Does the blood pick up oxygen in the lungs?
No, it does everything except picks up oxygen in the LUNGS. It gives up carbon dioxide instead! :)
What does the blood carry away from the cells and to your lungs to be removed?
It carries the waste gas called carbon dioxide. The blood then picks up oxygen to take back to the body cells.
What happens to the blood as it flows through the capillaries in the lungs?
The CO2 or carbon dioxide is removed by the alveoli from the blood. The carbon dioxide is replaced with oxygen. The blood is then full of oxygen. Alveoli are tiny sacs in the lungs, surrounded by capillaries.
