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Oxygen is bound to a protein (a respiratory pigment), called hemoglobin.
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What are the three types of blood vessels and what type of blood is carried in each?
The three types of blood vessels are: 1. arteries which usually carry O2 blood 2. veins which usually carry low O2 blood 3. capillaries which carry high O2 blood at the begging of the "bed" and low O2 at the end of the "bed"
What is the function on haemoglobin?
It helps in transport of O2 and CO2 It gives the red colour to the blood Haemoglobin will combine also with carbon monoxide to form carboxyhaemoglobin, which has the effect of reducing the amount of oxygen that can be carried in the blood.
Where does the O2 get carried in the blood?
A very small percentage dissolves in the plasma.Answer:The oxygen s not carried in the blood's fluids, it is chemically taken up by the haemoglobin to form oxyhaemoglobin.
What 3 materials are carried in the blood vessels?
in bloo vessels rbc, wbs & fluid is carried in form of blood
What are the functions of blood in respiration?
Blood in the body carried respiratory gases (i.e. O2 and CO2) around the body to cells where it's needed for cellular respiration.
Why is the respiratoy system important?
To get rid of CO2 waste and refresh your blood with O2. O2 is needed for your sugars and fat to burn, which is fuel for your muscles and other organs to move. CO2 comes from burning that fuel. Both is carried in and out by the lungs via the red blood cells. Oxygen is needed in any form of combustion. AKA 'fat burning'.
What are the three forms in which carbon dioxide is carried by blood?
Two of the forms in which carbon dioxide is carried by blood is bicarbonate ion, and carbaminohemoglobi. The last form in the blood is a dissolved in plasma.
What form of fat is carried in the blood by lipoproteins?
Triglycerides are carried through the blood by lipoproteins according to my health class. It could also be cholesterol, which is also a fat and is carried by lipoproteins along with triglycerides.
In which form is oxygen transported in the blood to the tissues?
Molecules of O2 bind to haemoglobin (Hg) in red blood cells- each Hg can carry four O2 molecules, and each red blood cell contains a lot of Hg.
What is the primary form in which carbon dioxide is carried in the blood?
As a bicarbonate ion in plasma
In what form is carbon dioxide carried through the blood?
Bicarbonate ion. HCO3(-)
2 ways oxygen is carried in the blood?
Oxygen binds (oxygenation) to metalloproteins (like hemoglobin in mammals) in erythrocytes (red blood cells). When the oxygenated metalloprotein reaches a tissue, the environment (low pH, high CO2 partial pressure, etc.) triggers the O2 unloading and CO2 loading. The O2 is then taken up into the tissue.
