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When blood passes through the lungs, oxygen from the alveoli diffuse into the capillaries and is taken up by red blood cells. There it binds to hemoglobin. The red blood cells will travel through the arteries to the tissues where the oxygen will disassociate itself from the hemoglobin and diffuse into the tissues (cells).

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What 2 body systems would be working to get carbon dioxide out the body and oxygen into the body cells?

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How does the excretory system depend on circulatory?

The circulatory system provides the excretory with blood that has to be cleaned. so theres your answer.


What transports sugar to cells where they are used?

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Does the circulatory system break down sugars?

Blood sugar is broken down in muscle fibres to produce mechanical power, and in cells to produce heat.


How does the circulatory system aid in the production of energy?

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Can cancer following death still continue?

This is debatable in terms of the definition of death! Yes, for a little while until the cancer cells run out of a sugar source. If a person stops breathing for 2 minutes, this is not death if they begin to breath again right afterwards--this near death event will not cure cancer. Whereas normal cells require oxygen, cancer cells do not. Both normal and cancer cells both need sugar nutrients to live. When the circulatory system stops pumping blood via the heart, oxygen and sugar nutrients stop flowing to cells. Sugar already in the cells may be able to maintain the cancerous cell's life longer than normal cells whose oxygen supply is stopped upon the patient stopping breathing. The oxidation of sugar and the fermentation of sugar both produce heat. When the body has been dead long enough, the body temperature will drop rapidly indicating death at the cellular level.


Why does the muscular system need the circulatory system?

the cardiovascular system needs the skeletal system because the skeletal system protects the organs of the cardiovascular system with the ribs and other bone parts. Also bone produces erythrocytes (red blood cells) and leukocytes (white blood cells) which of course are essential for the cardiovascular system


What type of work is respiration?

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What does Cells require to burn up food?

cells require oxygen to burn sugar.


What process are oxygen and sugar the products of?

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Are leaves made of sugar and oxygen?

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Is cells a product of respiration?

no, cells are just cells. the products of respiration are carbon dioxide and water. Photosynthesis (day time) carbon dioxide+water=oxygen+sugar, glucose Respiration (night time) oxygen+glucose, sugar=carbon dioxide+water