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Where does blood get oxygen from?
Capillaries in your lungs provide oxygen to the haemoglobin molecules of red blood cells.
How does oxygen travel throughout the body?
First you breath it in and then it goes through you blood stream dropping off oxygen molecules and picking up carbon dioxide all through the body and then it goes to the lungs to get more oxygen and drop off the carbon dioxide so it can be exhaled.
What carries the nutrient and oxygen throughout the body?
The blood. For oxygen specifically, the hemoglobin or red blood cells. "Food" per se does not travel around the body at all; our stomachs and intestines break down the food we eat into simple sugars, starches and proteins, which then are picked up by the blood and carried around with the oxygen.
What protein carries oxygen to muscles?
The hemoglobin which exists inside our RBCs (Red Blood Cells) carries the oxygen from lungs throughout our entire body.
Does blood produce oxygen?
Yes - oxygen is held in red blood cells (in haemoglobin to be precise). As the blood flows, oxygen is brought all around the body and eventually gets back to the heart and lungs as carbon dioxide (which is what you exhale).
What is the compound inside red blood cells that combines with oxygen?
Hemoglobin
What protein containing iron in red blood cells that combines with and transports O2?
Hemoglobin is the iron containing protein in our red blood cells that combines with and carries oxygen.
What two substances are needed for respiration to take place?
The oxygen in the uvula first combines with the red blood cells and the co2 combines with the whit blood cells
Why does Carbon Monoxide make you sleepy?
It jacks the spaces on the red blood cells originally for oxygen Carbon Monoxide combines with hemoglobin (the stuff on the red blood cells) 500 times faster than oxygen.
How is oxygen transpoted by blood?
Hemoglobin is the compound in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to body cells. The oxygen combines readily with the ion in hemoglobin, and hemoglobin can carry more than twenty times its own volume in oxygen. After releasing oxygen to the cells, hemoglobin collects carbon dioxide and carries it to the lungs where it is exhaled.
What will happen to a person when the red blood cells cant deliver oxygen to cells?
the person will die
Oxygen in the bloodstream flows into the cell's?
As oxygen goes into the red blood cells, it combines with the haemoglobin in it to form oxy-haemoglobin. each haemoglobin combines to 4 molecules of oxygen and because of the absence of a nucleus,more oxygen an be carried. When the red blood cells reach an area of deoxygenated blood, the oxygen from the red blood cells diffuses into the area requiring oxygen while the carbon dioxide moves into the red blood cells. The carbon dioxide then combines with the haemoglobin to form carbinohaemoglobin and is then taken to the lungs where it is unloaded and oxygen is loaded again. This process goes over again and again.
What is the function of heme in hemoglobin?
Heme is what keeps iron from rusting in our blood, which combines with globin to make hemoglobin, which is the thing in our red blood cells that carries oxygen.
What gas combines with oxygen in fuel cells?
hydrogen
How is carbon monoxide harmful?
Red blood cells normally transport oxygen through the bloodstream, releasing it to tissues that need it. However, carbon monxide bonds to the red blood cells much better than oxygen, and is not released once it combines with them. The red blood cells are unable to transport oxygen (they are already full of carbon monoxide), and you can become ill or die from lack of oxygen.
Which component of blood carries oxygen throughout the body?
Blood is ~55% plasma and ~45% red blood cells (erythrocytes). These cells contain millions of molecules of the protein hemoglobin each of which can bind up to 4 oxygen molecules.
In inhaling what will happen to maintain homeostasis?
Oxygen enters the blood to become available to cells.
