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In the case of animals, these exchanges occur in the capillaries.

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Where are nutrients absorbed into the blood through the walls of?

It passes through the wall of the digestive system, then into the blood.


Blood vessels in the dermis that carry oxygen and food?

Arteries to arterioles to capillaries where exchange occurs. Oxygen and nutrients are exchanged for carbon dioxide and wastes.


What are exchanged between the body cells and the blood plasma?

There are many substances they exchange, but the main ones are oxygen from the blood to the cells and CO2 from the cells to the blood.


Describe how the embryo receives oxygen and nutrients and how it gets rid of wastes?

its gets it all through the umbilical cord


What happens when blood flows through capillaries?

There is an exchange with oxygen, nutrients, and carbon dioxide and water vapor.


Why purification of blood also referred to as gaseous exchange?

The blood carries both nutrients (food) and wastes to and from cells. At the lungs carbon dioxide is exchanged for oxygen and at the kidneys blood is filtered and wastes and some water is lost. Most of the water is retained.


Why are capillaries found in alveoli nephrons and villi?

Wherever capillaries are found, these are places where nutrients and wastes are exchanged.


How does epithelium obtain nutrients and oxygen and get rid of wastes?

Through diffusion from underlying connective tissue which have abundant blood vessels.


Where does the exchange of oxygenfood nutrients and waste materials take place?

You don't specify which organism you are asking about, but I assume you mean in humans. These processes happen all over the body between the blood capillaries and the cells. If you mean exchange with the outside world, then oxygen is exchanged in the lungs, food nutrients in the small intestine, and nitrogenous waste in the kidneys. However, waste carbon dioxide is exchanged through the lungs and other wastes through the skin.


What transports oxygen nutrients and waste though mammals and fish?

Blood transports oxygen nutrients and wastes in mammals and fish .


What is the meaning of arterioles?

Arterioles are very small arteries which lead from arteries in to a capillary bed where gases, wastes and nutrients are exchanged.


What takes place as the blood goes through the capillaries?

The oxygen and other nutrients in the blood diffuse into the cells through osmosis, and then wastes and other harmful chemicals are diffused out.