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Oxygen is added to your blood in the lungs, specifically in the alveoli, which are tiny air sacs where gas exchange occurs. When you inhale, oxygen from the air passes through the alveolar walls and enters the bloodstream, where it binds to hemoglobin in red blood cells. This oxygen-rich blood is then transported throughout the body to supply tissues and organs.
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When the lungs do not function in a fetal pig what takes over their function?
The placenta. Deoxygenated blood flows to the placenta where the carbon dioxide is removed and oxygen added. Oxygen rich blood returns to the fetus. Blood is carried to and from the fetus by the umbilical cord.
What organ converts blood from oxygen-rich to oxygen-poor?
oxygen rich blood gets pumped out of your heart to your arteries which carries the blood to your muscles. then your muscles use the oxygen. oxygen poor blood goes into your veins to go back into your heart. then it goes through a cycle that takes your blood to your lungs, to get oxygen. this process is repeated.
What is the name for blood that has most of its oxygen given to the bodys cells is called?
Deoxygenated blood, also referred to as oxygen-poor blood or venous blood. This blood is returning to the heart after delivering oxygen to the body's cells.
What blood contains more oxygen?
Arterial blood typically contains more oxygen than venous blood. Arterial blood is oxygen-rich because it comes directly from the lungs after picking up oxygen, while venous blood has delivered its oxygen to the tissues and is returning to the heart to pick up more.
How does blood change as it circulates throughout the boby?
it turns from oxygen rich (oxygenated) blood to oxygen poor (deoxygenated) blood
Does the blood vessel which carry blood from the heart to the lungs contain a lot oxygen?
Well, the lungs are where the oxygen is added to the blood. So, the short answer is 'no.' There may be some oxygen left, but the blood would probably be a deep blueish color. When the oxygen is added the blood turns red.
What is added to the blood after its been inhaled?
oxygen:)
In the lungs oxygen is added to which type of blood cells?
Red blood cells
What happens to the blood when it reaches the lungs?
The blood is oxygenated that is oxygen which has been inhaled is added to the blood and the blood then transports it to other body parts.
What blood vessels take blood away from the heart after oxygen is added?
ARTERIES ALWAYS take blood AWAY from the heart.
What is in blood that is being pumped from the heart to the lungs?
Carbon dioxide is at high levels and oxygen at low levels in blood that is being pumped from the heart to the lungs.
What is oxygenated blood and deoxygenated blood?
Oxygenated blood is the blood remaining after the oxygen intake by the body from the blood. And than oxygenated blood goes to Lungs and heart with enrich with oxygen for the body.
If the blood leaves the right side of the heart deoxygenated and returns to the left side oxygenated what gas has been added to the blood?
The answer to this very question is simply gas. When blood leaves the heart deoxygenated it immediately goes to the lungs to receive oxygen which is a gas and this gas goes to the left side of the heart.
When the lungs do not function in a fetal pig what takes over their function?
The placenta. Deoxygenated blood flows to the placenta where the carbon dioxide is removed and oxygen added. Oxygen rich blood returns to the fetus. Blood is carried to and from the fetus by the umbilical cord.
Does liver puts oxygen in your blood?
No, the liver does not put oxygen into your blood. The liver's main functions include detoxifying chemicals, metabolizing drugs, producing bile, and storing glycogen. Oxygen is primarily added to the blood through the lungs during respiration, where oxygen is inhaled and diffuses into the bloodstream through the alveoli in the lungs.
What if oxygen-rich blood mixes with your oxygen-poor blood?
the quality of our blood that rich with oxygen will become low
Why does blood circulate from the heart to the lungs?
The oxygen poor blood (not enough oxygen) goes to the lungs to get more oxygen to turn into oxygen rich blood (has plenty of oxygen)
