In order to talk about the journey of red blood cells with reference to the lungs you need to take

in consideration the right side of the heart first. Deoxygenated blood flows through your right atrium from the veins connected to the right atrium. As your right atrium contracts it pushes the deoxygenated blood into the right ventricle. As the deoxygenated blood follows through the right ventricle it gets pushed to the pulmonary vein. As the deoxygenated blood moves through the pulmonary vein it goes to the capillaries of the lungs. Here in the capillaries the blood uptakes oxygen and gets rid of carbon dioxide. After this has occured, the newly oxygenated blood moves from the capillaries in the lungs to the pulmonary artery. The pulmonary artery pushes the oxygenated blood to the left atrium of the heart. When the left atrium contracts, it pushes the oxygenated blood to the left ventricle. When the left ventricle contracts it pushes the oxygenated blood to the aorta where it finally leaves the heart and goes out through a series of arteries. What is the journey of a red blood cell around the human body? I am assuming that you are expected to show the path that a red blood cell takes throughout the body after it has already been made. I would start at a part of the body, say the toe, where it leaves

its oxygen. After it leaves the oxygen at the part of the body it needs to then it goes back to the heart and lungs to get more oxygen so it can then go back to where it needs to give more oxygen. The pathway of blood through the body is like one big circle. Asking where you should start is like asking where a circle begins.

rbc Red blood cells (also referred to as erythrocytes) are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate organism's principal means of delivering oxygen (O2) to the body tissues via the blood flow through the circulatory system. They take up oxygen in the lungs or gills and release it while squeezing through the body's capillaries. These cells' cytoplasm is rich in hemoglobin, an iron-containing biomolecule that can bind oxygen and is responsible for the blood's red color. In humans, mature red blood cells are flexible biconcave disks that lack a cell nucleus and most organelles. 2.4 million new erythrocytes are produced per second.[1] The cells develop in the bone marrow and circulate for about 100120 days in the body before their components are recycled by macrophages. Each circulation takes about 20 seconds. Approximately a quarter of the cells in the

human body are red blood cells.[2][3] Red blood cells are also known as RBCs, red blood corpuscles (an archaic term), haematids, erythroid cells or erythrocytes (from Greek erythros for "red" and kytos for "hollow", with cyte translated as "cell" in modern usage). Packed red blood cells, which are made from whole blood with the plasma removed, are used in transfusion medicine.[4]