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The purpose of blood is to carry oxygen to the cells of the body. This oxygen is consumed via cellular respiration, which produces water and carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide is then carried by the blood to the lungs where it is exhaled.

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What will happen when the blood contains too little oxygen?

The body will lose consciousness and then die.


Why is blood so important why will people die if they lose too much blood?

blood carries a lot of things within your body. Importantly, oxygen. All of your cells need oxygen and cannot live without it. Without blood, they cannot get oxygen.


Where in the body does blood lose oxygen as it passes?

The blood losses O2 in the capillary beds that supply every cell in the body (exept the gas exchange cells in the lungs)


How does the blood help the body?

The body needs oxygen to survive, and blood carries oxygen to cells in the body.


What oxygen pushes blood through your body?

Oxygen does not push blood through the body, the heart does.


After blood releases oxygen to the cells of the body the blood becomes?

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.


What is oxygenated blood and deoxygenated blood?

Oxygenated blood is the blood remaining after the oxygen intake by the body from the blood. And than oxygenated blood goes to Lungs and heart with enrich with oxygen for the body.


Transportation of oxygen may be compromised by the decrease of?

Blood. Oxygen is transferred throughout the body by blood. Hemoglobin in the blood carry the oxygen through the body and distributes it.


Does blood carry food and oxygen around the body?

Blood carries Oxygen through the body but, not food.


What bring oxygen to all part of the body?

it is the blood cells in your blood that contain and carry oxygen around the body


What transports oxygen in the body?

Blood cells carry the oxygen through the blood stream to the other cells in the body.


What part of the body carries oxygen?

The air carries oxygen to your body when it is inhaled into your lungs.The blood carries oxygen through you body to the vcells that use it as part of their metabolism.