How are nutrients, wastes, and respiratory gases transported to and from the blood and tissue spaces?

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Hey, everyone. Let's take a look at this question together which of the following organ systems is responsible for transporting gasses around the body. Is it answer choice. A the circulatory system. Answer choice B the respiratory system, answer choice C the digestive system or answer choice D the nervous system, let's work this problem out together to try to figure out which of the following organ systems. It's responsible for transporting gasses around the body. So in order to determine which of the following organ systems is responsible for the transportation of gasses, we have to recall what is involved in the transportation of gasses to determine what system they belong to. And we know that the transportation of gasses involves the heart as well as those blood vessels. And it includes the blood. Since these are primarily involved in the transportation of gasses, which include oxygen as well as carbon dioxide throughout the body. So looking at our answer choices, which organ system includes the heart, the blood vessels and the blood. Well, we know that it is not the respiratory system since the respiratory system includes the lungs, because the respiratory system involves the exchange of gasses between the outside environment and the body through breathing. And we note that answer choice c is incorrect since the digestive system involves those digestive organs and the processing and absorption of nutrients. And lastly answer choice D the nervous system is incorrect since the nervous system includes the organs that are involved in controlling and coordinating the body's function, which leaves us with answer choice. A the circulatory system, which is the correct answer. Since the main function of the circulatory system is to transport gasses around the body by using the heart, blood vessels and blood to transport that oxygen and carbon dioxide. I hope you found this video to be helpful. Thank you and goodbye.