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Why does blood change color at the lungs?
Blood changes color at the lungs because it unloads carbon dioxide and absorbs oxygen. Red blood cells that are carrying oxygen are a brighter red color than red blood cells that are depleted of oxygen.
What do red blood cells transport?
Red blood cells, corpuscles, transport oxygenated blood from the lungs to the body, and carbon dioxide from the body to the lungs.
When Oxygen-rich blood from the lungs enters the heart at what structure?
The alveoli of the lungs are surrounded by capillaries. As the blood travels through the capillaries, the red blood cells become oxygenated and give up their load of CO2
In the lungs oxygen is added to which type of blood cells?
Red blood cells
What is The blood cells responsible for transporting oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues and carbon dioxide from the body tissues to the lungs called?
The blood cells responsible are red blood cells. White blood cells fight disease.
What does the red blood cells carry to the lungs?
The red blood cells carry carbon dioxide back to the lungs.
What is the function of blood cells in the lungs?
The main function of blood cells in lungs is to carry oxygen and carbon dioxide throughout the body
Which blood cells carries oxygen from the lungs and distributes it to all the cells in the body?
red blood cells
What are the cells in blood that collect oxygen in the lungs?
The cells in blood that collect oxygen in the lungs are red blood cells (erythrocytes). They contain hemoglobin, a protein that binds to oxygen molecules as blood passes through the lung's alveoli. This allows red blood cells to transport oxygen from the lungs to tissues throughout the body. Additionally, they help in the removal of carbon dioxide from the tissues back to the lungs.
What is responsible for picking up the oxygen in lungs and carrying it to all the body cell that need it?
The hemoglobin protein in red blood cells is responsible for picking up oxygen in the lungs and transporting it to cells throughout the body. Hemoglobin binds to oxygen in the lungs and releases it to cells where it is needed for cellular respiration.
How do red blood cells get oxygen?
the lungs
What does blood contain that carrys oxygen to the cells and wastes away from the cells?
Hemoglobin is what transports the oxygen in the red blood cells.
