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What is the chemical in cigarette smoke that reduces the ability of blood to carry oxygen?
carbon monoxide
What part of the blood carries oxygen?
The red blood cells carry the oxygen in blood.
What is responsible for the RBC's ability to transport oxygen and CO2?
It is an iron-based protein called hemoglobin.
Why is oxygen needed in blood?
Because your cells need oxygen. Blood has Hemoglobins inside it, which carry oxygen.
What color are the blood cells when they carry oxygen?
the answer is that i dont know
Hemoglobin gives red blood cells the ability to?
Hemoglobin gives the red blood cells the ability to carry oxygen.
Which anemia is characterized by bone marrow that produces large abnormal red blood cells with a reduced capacity to carry oxygen?
Sickle cell anemia produces sickle-shaped RBCs that reduce the ability to carry as well as exchange oxygen with tissues.
What is the chemical in cigarette smoke that reduces the ability of blood to carry oxygen?
carbon monoxide
How does smoking effect running?
Smoking can weaken the lungs and reduce breathing capacity. Also smoking can reduce oxygen level of blood thus blood can not carry enough oxygen to the necessary organ.
What is a condition in which the ability of the blood to carry oxygen is reduced?
Lack of heamoglobin, lack of iron etc
A genetic disease that affect the ability of blood to carry oxygen b changing the shape of the red blood cell?
Sickle Cell Anemia
How does temperature affect fish?
Temperatures affect speed of metabolism, enzyme activity, and the blood's ability to carry oxygen.
Do arteries carry oxygen-rich blood to capillaries?
Systemic Arteries carry oxygen rich blood (also called oxygenated blood). Pulmonary Arteries carry oxygen poor (deoxygenated) blood
Is blood in the arteries in rich in oxygen?
By definition, ALL arteries carry Oxygen rich blood. Veins carry oxygen depleted blood.
What substance interferes with the body's ability to carry oxygen?
The substance that makes it difficult for the blood to carry oxygen throughout the body is carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is also poisonous the cells in the body.
Where does veins carry oxygen depleted blood to?
Veins carry oxygen depleted blood to the heart.
What kind of blood does vein carry?
Usually veins carry blood low in oxygen back to the heart except for the pulmonary veins. They carry blood higher in oxygen.
