How is oxygen carried from the lungs to the tissues?
a. It is carried by cilia through the bronchioles.
b. It binds to a protein called hemoglobin in red blood cells.
c. It leaves the alveoli and enters mucus.
d. It leaves the bronchi and enters capillaries.
Oxygen transport within the human body occurs through both convection and diffusion. ... Oxygen diffuses from both the alveoli into the pulmonary capillaries and the systemic capillaries into the tissues, according to Fick's laws of diffusion and the random walk of the diffusing particles
