Hemoglobin is the substance in the blood that picks up oxygen. Hemoglobin is found on red blood cells.
Erythrocytes
carbon dioide
Blood picks up oxygen from the lungs.
Blood with no oxygen (the blood that flows to the heart picks up oxygen from the lungs).
The lungs
It picks up oxygen
Red blood cells pick up oxygen and deposit carbon dioxide at the lungs
The blood picks up oxygen in the lungs and gives it to all the organs in the body that needs it.
Blood picks up oxygen in the lungs when it diffuses across the thin walls of the alveoli into the bloodstream. This oxygen is then carried by red blood cells to tissues throughout the body.
Iron and hemoglobin ( a substance found in your red blood cells) combine with oxygen and it turns the blood color from a dark color, to a healthy bright color, also iron picks up oxygen, and carries it through the rest of your body.
No, it does everything except picks up oxygen in the LUNGS. It gives up carbon dioxide instead! :)
Blood picks up oxygen and releases carbon dioxide in the lungs.