The document summarizes gas transport in the body. It describes how oxygen moves from the alveoli in the lungs to tissues via diffusion and binding to hemoglobin in red blood cells. Hemoglobin has a higher affinity for oxygen when carbon dioxide levels are higher, facilitating unloading of oxygen to tissues. Carbon dioxide is transported primarily as bicarbonate in plasma and binds reversibly to hemoglobin as well. The oxygen content of arterial blood and cardiac output determine the oxygen flux or amount of oxygen delivered to tissues per minute to meet metabolic demands.