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Blood transports oxygen nutrients and wastes in mammals and fish .

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How the body transports blood nutrients and other mateials through a system of vessels?

The circulatory system in the body transports blood, nutrients, and other materials through a network of blood vessels. The heart pumps oxygen-rich blood from the arteries to various tissues and organs in the body. Nutrients and oxygen are exchanged with carbon dioxide and waste products in the capillaries, and then the blood returns to the heart through veins to be oxygenated again.


Why is water not considered as a nutrient?

Water is not considered a nutrient even though it contains nutrients because it is considered a transporter of nutrients. It transports the nutrients throughout the body.


What passes though the umbilical cord?

nutrients, oxygen and blood


What organ moves food and oxygen throigh the body?

The heart is responsible for pumping blood throughout the body, which carries oxygen and nutrients to cells. The digestive system, which includes organs like the stomach and intestines, moves food through the body via a series of muscular contractions.


What system transports materials to and from the body's cells?

The most obvious answer would be the Circulatory system; however, the Lymph system also transports material throughout the body, it could be compared to the sewer system in a city. If this is for homework though, the right answer would most assuredly be Circulatory system.


Do mammals have four stomachs to aid digestion?

Well, for one, not all mammals have four stomachs. Some do though, such as cows. They also could be for digesting different things or putting the nutrients from the digested food into different areas of the body.


What is blood is it a chemical?

No blood is not a chemical. Though there is a lab test that is called a blood chemistry it actually shows things like minerals and CO2 dissolved in the blood. Blood is a vital body organ that transports sugar, nutrients, oxygen, CO2, and waste through the body.


What happens if you blood?

Blood is the body's transport medium: it transports substances around the body. It carries hormones, nutrients, water and oxygen to places they are required(eg the muscles) and transports waste products such as carbon dioxide to places where they can be excreted. In a pregnant woman, the mother's and baby's blood exchange these substances, though they each have different blood supplies. White bloods cells(leukocytes) are also carried in blood as part of the immune system, protecting the body against infections.


Why are are duck-billed platypusess mammals?

Though platypuses lay eggs, they are mammals as they have body hair.


Are birds warm-blooded?

Yes birds are warmblooded. They are not mammals though.


Do monkeys flatuate?

All mammals produce gases in their digestive tract. As a result, all mammals flatuate. Not all mammals are capable of belching though.


What The legs of insects and the legs of mammals are?

The legs of insects and the legs of mammals are usually jointed. This does not take into consideration, though, that sharks, whales, and dolphins are also mammals.