Hemoglobin is the compound in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to body cells. The oxygen combines readily with the ion in hemoglobin, and hemoglobin can carry more than twenty times its own volume in oxygen. After releasing oxygen to the cells, hemoglobin collects carbon dioxide and carries it to the lungs where it is exhaled.
Every blood cell contains a chemical called hemoglobin. The hemoglobin molecule contains a single atom of Iron. This Iron atom is in such an oxidation state and is presented in such a way that it has a weak affinity to oxygen molecules. This is not a real bond (ionic or covalent) but an 'understanding' between the filled orbital of oxygen and the unfilled orbitals on the iron. When the blood reaches its target tissue the oxygen hunger of the cells is greater than the oxygen affinity in the blood and the oxygen gets sucked off the blood and replaced by carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide has oxygen in it of course and these oxygen molecules 'stick' to the iron. It is not as great an attraction as to pure oxygen but is the absence of the real stuff it'll be content with carbon dioxide. When the blood gets back to the lungs where there is real oxygen to be had the carbon dioxide is spuriously rejected and real oxygen taken up again.
Oxygen is transported in the blood
false... oxygen is primarily transported by Red blood cells
For starters, blood IS cells. Blood is made up of plasma and white & red blood cells. The oxygen gets transported straight to the red blood cells, and then gets used and coverted to CO2 which is transported out of the cell.
Yes, 97% of oxygen in the body is transported by RBCs with the help of haemoglobin. The rest 3% is carried by the plasma.
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Oxygen in the blood is transported by hemoglobin.
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Oxygen is transported in the blood
false... oxygen is primarily transported by Red blood cells
Oxygen is transported with the help of Red blood cells as the red blood cells contain haemoglobin to can carry oxygen from one place to another.
blood cells and oxygen
threw your veins
Blood full of oxygen.
yes through your veins :)
Oxygen and nutrients.
Most oxygen is transported in the blood bound to what?
Oxygen binds to a molecule called hemoglobin in red blood cells.