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The primary function of white blood cells is to fight infection. Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues, and carbon dioxide as a waste product away from the tissues and back to the lungs.
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∙ 11y agoNo, white blood cells fight off bacteria, red blood cells carry oxygen to the body.
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∙ 12y agoNo, carbon dioxide is attracted to red blood cells.
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∙ 11y agoNo, most carbon dioxide is dissolved into the blood in the form of a bicarbonate ion. Some carbon dioxide bonds to the hemoglobin in red blood cells to form carboxyhemoglobin.
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Which part of the blood transport carbon dioxide and glucose?
Glucose is carried through the circulation in the blood plasma.
What blood cells transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide?
Erythrocytes aka red blood cells, specifically the hemoglobin of the red blood cells
What of these is a waste product of cells blood water oxygen or carbon dioxide?
Carbon dioxide and water
Why does carbon dioxide moves into red blood cells by diffusion rather than by active transport?
Do you mean why does carbon dioxide diffuse out of the cells into the bloodstream? Diffusion is the movement of particles from a region of high concentration to a region of low concentration. Carbon dioxide is present in your body cells at a high concentration because the cells are making it. The process which makes carbon dioxide in cells is respiration. This is the release of energy from food. Carbon dioxide is a waste product of respiration. The carbon dioxide molecules diffuse into the blood because there is a lower concentration in the than in the cells. This is because the blood is always moving, so the carbon dioxide is carried away and does not build up. The difference in concentration between the cells and the blood keeps carbon dioxide diffusing in the correct direction. See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/biology/cellprocesses/2diffusionandosmosisrev2.shtml
How oxygen and carbon dioxide are carried by the blood?
Mostly nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide.
Why are red blood cells good for what they do?
They transport oxygen and carbon dioxide.
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.
Red blood cells transport which 2 chemicals in the body?
Red blood cells have haemoglobin which helps in the transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
What does the red blood cells transport?
They transport mainly oxygen to cells, while taking waste and carbon dioxide away.
What is the cell function of a red blood cell?
Red Blood cells transport oxygen to the cells, and they then take carbon dioxide from the cells.
Why is carbon monoxide more dangerous than carbon dioxide?
Carbon monoxide bonds the the hemoglobin in out red blood cells. This renders our blood unable to transport oxygen. Carbon dioxide does not do this.
What do red blood cell transport?
Red blood cells, corpuscles, transport oxygenated blood from the lungs to the body, and carbon dioxide from the body to the lungs.
What responsible for the transport of oxygen the body tissues and removal of carbon dioxide?
red blood cells
Which part of the blood transport carbon dioxide and glucose?
Glucose is carried through the circulation in the blood plasma.
What does the red blood cell transport mainly?
They transport mainly oxygen to cells, while taking waste and carbon dioxide away.
Blood comes from the heart to lungs to have what done?
To get rid of the carbon dioxide produced in the cells of your body, and to get new oxygen to transport to your cells.
What are red blood cells and what task do they perform?
Red blood cells are large, round cells in the bloodstream. They are red because they contain hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is used to transport oxygen through the bloodstream, from the lungs to the cells of the rest of the body. Then the hemoglobin in the red blood cells absorbs carbon dioxide to transport to the lungs for exhalation. So the purpose of red blood cells is to supply oxygen and eliminate carbon dioxide in the body.
