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If for instance instead of the blood cells carrying C02 in to the heart the blood cells are carrying Oxogen? or do I have it back wards can some one blease tell me?

2006-11-14 08:49:08 · 2 answers · asked by morgana_tyler 1 in Science & Mathematics Biology

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your question is confused .. red blood cells carry Oxygen on the way from the lungs to the heart and other parts, they carry CO2 from the rest of the body back to the lungs for exhalation. If they were saturated with CO you would be suffering cyanosis or Carbon Monoxide poisoning, that would be unpleasant to say the least.
Theoretically you can 't carry too much CO2 in the red blood cell since it is self regulating and can only carry X amount at any given time .. hence the reason you breathe fast or slow depending on the production of CO2 by your body chemistry; the CO2 encites certain hormones to accelarate your heart beat and respiration rate to accommodate for the 'overload" of CO2

2006-11-14 09:04:46 · answer #1 · answered by The old man 6 · 0 0

Question in your description does not mean the same as your title/main question. Anyways, for your main question: since oxygen is used in body cells to generate energy, I suppose cells will have proportionately lesser energy. In the worst case, the cells can generate no energy and so will not able to live.

2006-11-14 16:55:12 · answer #2 · answered by ramshi 4 · 0 0

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