Characteristics of a respiratory system

they allow you to breathe, they exchange gases in bloodstream and body tissues, and they allow you to smell.

Movement of an oxygen-containing medium so it contacts a moist membrane overlying blood vessels.

Diffusion of oxygen from the medium into the blood.

Transport of oxygen to the tissues and cells of the body.

Diffusion of oxygen from the blood into cells.

hormones in blood stream

image: dtc.ucsf.edu

endocrine glands secrete hormones into the blood stream near them; the hormones then travel in our bloodstream until it reaches its destination, called a target cell, in distance parts of the body. in the target tissue, hormones lock onto the target’s plasma membrane, called the receptor site.

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