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Oxygen and carbon dioxide get into and out of cells via diffusion. The gases diffuse across the thin capillary wall, and then diffuse across the cell membrane.

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What do capillaries exchange?

Capillaries exchange food, oxygen, and carbon dioxide.


What principle causes the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the capillaries and the alveoli?

diffusion


In which capillary beds does oxygen enter the capillaries and carbon dioxide exit the capillaries?

The capillary bed in the lungs is where the oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.


Where are oxygen and carbon dioxide exchanged in the lungs?

oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged in alveoli (singular alveolus).


How are oxygen and carbon dioxide exchanged between the alveoli and the capillaries?

Oxygen diffuses from the alveoli into the capillaries, where it binds to hemoglobin in red blood cells for transport to tissues. Carbon dioxide diffuses from the capillaries into the alveoli and is exhaled from the body.


Where does the diffusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide occur?

In the lungs, the diffusion of oxygen occurs from the alveoli (air sacs) into the blood capillaries, while the diffusion of carbon dioxide occurs from the blood capillaries into the alveoli for exhalation. This exchange process is facilitated by differences in partial pressures of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the air in the alveoli and the blood in the capillaries.


Air that leaves the air sacs is rich in the gas?

Oxygen is 'transported' from the lung capillaries to the body capillaries - in an inverse fashion carbon dioxide is transported from the body capillaries to the Lung Alveoli - the Answer is 'It is rich in CO2."


What process takes place at the capillaries and how are capillaries suited for this process?

exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place in the capillaries


What process takes place at the capillaries How the capillaries suited for this place?

exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place in the capillaries


By what process does the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide take place?

capillaries and the alveoli


What are the two things that diffuse from body cells to capillaries?

Oxygen and carbon dioxide


Carbon dioxide enters the blood at the?

Capillaries. The diffusion of nutrients, oxygen, carbon dioxide and wastes take place in the capillaries. If you want to be more specific, it would be the venous ends of the capillaries where carbon dioxide enters the blood.