In the lungs, in the alveolar capillaries
Oxygen
lungs
Red blood cells pick up oxygen and deposit carbon dioxide at the lungs
The red blood cells pick up oxygen from the air that is inhaled into the lungs. When the red cells pick up the oxygen from the air, they expel carbon dioxide into the lungs to be exhaled.
Blood picks up multiple things from cells. They pick up waste products like carbon dioxide and water, and they also pick up oxygen from the lungs.
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They are transported to an oxygen rich environment, the lungs. It is there that they pick up their oxygen.
Yes, red blood cells pick up oxygen in the lungs through a process called oxygenation. Oxygen binds to hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells, and is then carried to tissues throughout the body for cellular respiration.
The job of a blood cell is to pick up oxygen from the lungs and carrying oxygen to the other cells in the body.
Capillaries
Blood picks up oxygen in the lungs when it diffuses across the thin walls of the alveoli into the bloodstream. This oxygen is then carried by red blood cells to tissues throughout the body.
After blood releases oxygen to the cells of the body the blood becomes deoxygenized. It then travels back to the heart to get more oxygen.