Physical Education GCSE
Oxygen transport
What Oxygen transport means in Physical Education GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Oxygen transport
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Reference: OCR
Red blood cells are the oxygen carriers of the blood, picking oxygen up in the lungs and releasing it at the tissues.
Topics that use Oxygen transport
Related terms
- Aerobic respiration
- Capillaries
- cardiac output
- Double circulation
- Haemoglobin
- Heart chamber and valve structure
- One-way blood flow
- Oxygenation states of blood
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