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What happens to the oxygen level in blood as it moves through the lungs?
As blood moves through the lungs, oxygen is exchanged for carbon dioxide. Oxygen diffuses from the air in the lungs into the blood, increasing the oxygen level in the blood. Conversely, carbon dioxide diffuses from the blood into the air in the lungs, decreasing the carbon dioxide level in the blood.
What is the lungs purpose?
The lungs take in oxygenated air and gets it to the blood. It then releases the carbon dioxide out of your body.
What happens to the oxygen levels in the blood as it moves through the lungs?
the oxygen releases carbon dioxide
Where does blood go AFTER it leaves the pulmonary arteries?
Blood leaves the pulmonary artery and travels into the lungs. In the lungs the blood releases carbon dioxide and picks up oxygen.
Where does the heart pump blood low in oxygen and high in carbon dioxide?
The heart pumps blood low in oxygen and high in carbon dioxide to the lungs, where blood releases carbon dioxide and picks up oxygen.
The blood picks up oxygen and releases carbon dioxide where?
The blood picks up oxygen from the lungs and releases carbon dioxide in the lungs as well. Oxygen is transported to the tissues where it is needed, while carbon dioxide is carried back to the lungs to be exhaled.
What thing releases carbon dioxide into the air?
Lungs! =)
What organ removes Carbon dioxide from the bloodstream?
The lungs remove carbon dioxide from the bloodstream. As blood circulates through the lungs, carbon dioxide diffuses from the blood into the lungs to be exhaled out of the body.
Where in a mammal's body does oxygen enter the bloodstream?
Blood picks up oxygen and releases carbon dioxide in the lungs.
Where in a mammals's body does oxygen enter the bloodstream?
Blood picks up oxygen and releases carbon dioxide in the lungs.
What part do red blood cells have in the oxygen carbon dioxide exchange?
The hemoglobin in red blood cells carries oxygen from the lungs to the tissues in the rest of the body, where it releases the oxygen to the tissues and collects the resultant carbon dioxide bringing it back to the lungs to be exhaled.
What supplies oxygen and eliminates carbon dioxide from the blood stream?
Lungs and Lungs. Blood that contains carbon dioxide means it is lacking oxygen, and the carbon dioxide was put into the blood as a waste product by all the other organs. The blood then reaches the lungs and exchanges the carbon dioxide for oxygen. The now oxygen-rich blood is transported to the heart where it is pumped throughout the body, and the carbon dioxide is exhaled from the lungs.
