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Hemoglobin makes this red When it's deoxygenated it looks blue What is it?
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What color does hemoglobin impart?
Bright red
Why blood looks red when you see it?
== == Blood looks red because the hemoglobin absorbs blue-yellow light when bound with oxygen. The reflected light is then red.
Is bloood brighter with oxygen or no oxygen?
The bright red color of blood is due to the binding of oxygen to the hemoglobin of red blood cells. Veins appear to be a darkish blue hue because they are deoxygenated.
What is deoxygenated blood?
it is blood that is rich in carbon dioxide rather than oxygen on the way back to the heart . the oxygen has been delivered to the body and carbon dioxide has replaced the oxygen. Blood that has released its oxygen. It is dark red in color with a tinge of blue. It is a common misconception that deoxygenated blood is blue. Oxygen bonds to hemoglobin in the blood cells and is transported to where it is needed in the body where it exchanges with carbon dioxide. Deoxygenated blood is found in veins and in the pulmonary artery.
Does hemoglobin have proteins?
Hemoglobin is an iron-containing protein. Hemoglobin contains a hemo prosthetic group that has an iron atom at its center. When the iron is bound to oxygen, the hemo group is red in color (oxyhemogoblin), and when it lacks oxygen (deoxygenated form) it is blue-red.
Why is the color of blood is always red in color?
Blood is always red (NEVER blue) because of hemoglobin, the main factor in blood's color. Deoxygenated hemoglobin is dark red, while oxygen enriched hemoglobin is more cherry red. The common misconception that deoxygenated blood in your veins is blue stems from textbooks that show arteries in red and veins in blue for simplicity. Also, your veins appear blue through your skin because of a variety of reasons only weakly dependent on the color of the blood. Light scattering in the skin, and the visual processing of color play roles as well. If arteries were near the skin surface, they would appear blue as well. Cameras inserted in veins during medical procedures clearly show that blood in veins is red, and when drawing blood from veins in a way that doesn't expose it to the air, it is clearly a dark red color and not blue.
What stain hemoglobin casts dark-blue to blue-black in puchtler's method for hemoglobin?
Sudan black B
What do the blue blood represent in a diagram?
deoxygenated blood
Why do people in respiratory arrest often show cyanosis?
Cyanosis is a blue coloration of the skin and mucous membranes due to the presence of deoxygenated hemoglobin in blood vessels near the skin surface. It occurs when the oxygen saturation of arterial blood falls below 85-90% (1.5g/dl deoxyhemoglobin). Although human blood is always a shade of red (except in rare cases of hemoglobin-related disease), the optical properties of skin distort the dark red color of deoxygenated blood to make it appear bluish.
How does oxygenated blood differ from oxygenated blood?
Oxygenated blood is blood in which oxygen is attached to the haemoglobin molecules in the red blood cells. It is bright red because the attached oxygen makes the normally blue haemoglobin molecules turn red.When blood has delivered oxygen to the cells, it is described as deoxygenated. It now looks a very dark red because so many of the haemoglobin molecules have turned blue again. The mixture of blue and red molecules looks dark red to our eyes.Deoxyhemoglobin (deoxygenated hemoglobin) is dark red; it is a common misconception that blood (at least that without hemocyanin) is blue!
Why some anymal has blue blood?
Some animals (like horseshoe crabs) have blue blood because they use hemocyanin carry oxygen to their tissues instead hemoglobin like we do. The copper in the hemocyanin makes their blood appear blue.
Why do some of the blood vessels in your wrist look blue?
deoxygenated blood looks slightly purple/blue as the fe^2+ prosthetic groups in the erythrocytes (red blood cells) are not bound to O2. when they are, they appear the colour red that is seen when blood is exposed to the air.
