The main function of the blood is transportation. It carries warmth all over the body, takes nutrients from the intestine and oxygen from the lungs and delivers them where necessary.
In lower animals, oxygen and all the other essential substances are merely dissolved in the fluid which circulates throughout their bodies. Higher animals evolved a special [...]
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