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The heart is central to the cardiovascular system and functions as a pump driving the blood around the body through vessels to reach all tissues and cells.

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Which type of blood cell is responsible for gas exchange in the circulating blood?

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How does blood get around to every blood cell?

its pumped around your body by your heart it in a circular motion that's why its called blood circulation


What might cause the body to produce more blood cell?

the heart pumps the blood around the body


What is polychythemia?

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How long does it take to pump blood to every cell?

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I am intereste in the life-cyce journey of a red blood cell from the human bone barrow. Does red blood cell reoxiate?

to the heart to be pumped around the body


What are mylacytes?

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What can a red blood cell count tell us?

How much blood is being circulated, but more importantly how much oxygen is circulating.


What is the process that makes up the heart cell?

Blood in, blood out.


How does blood flow through the body to each individual cell and back to the heart?

it goes around the body in your arteries


What is the part of the human transport system and there function?

your heart,blood,veins,red blood cell,white blood cell


What is a clotting cell called?

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