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What is the content of human red blood cells?
Red blood cells are packed with a chemical compound called hemoglobin, which has the ability to both absorb and release oxygen molecules.
How is carbon monoxide harmful?
Red blood cells normally transport oxygen through the bloodstream, releasing it to tissues that need it. However, carbon monxide bonds to the red blood cells much better than oxygen, and is not released once it combines with them. The red blood cells are unable to transport oxygen (they are already full of carbon monoxide), and you can become ill or die from lack of oxygen.
What brings oxygen to cells?
various reasons. the blood is responsible for delivering oxygen to the cells. as a result anything blocks the blood from reaching the cells will limit the oxygen. or some intoxication such as CO toxicity which replace the place of oxygen in the blood.
What cells help you get oxygen?
Red Blood cells help you get oxygen to your cells
From what source do cells get food?
ANSWER IS NOT OXYGEN, I ANSWERED OXYGEN AND IT WASN'T RIGHT. The correct answer is BLOOD
What is the compound inside red blood cells that combines with oxygen?
Hemoglobin
Does water give your cells oxygen?
yes and no. the energy is stored in carbon bonds and and when the carbon bonds with O2 the energy not used in the new bonds is released.
Which is a pigment in blood that carries oxygen?
haemoglobin a comles compound of protein with iron
What type of blood cell is primarily responsible for carring oxygen in the blood stream?
Red corpuscles (red blood cells) carry oxygen in the bloodstream.
Describe oxygen transport in the red blood cell?
Red blood cells contain a substance called haemoglobin. Oxygen dissolves in haemoglobin to form oxyhaemoglobin. This compound travels in the blood and is taken to all the cells
Which component of blood carries oxygen throughout the body?
Blood is ~55% plasma and ~45% red blood cells (erythrocytes). These cells contain millions of molecules of the protein hemoglobin each of which can bind up to 4 oxygen molecules.
What is the oxygen carrying compound in blood?
It is hemoglobin that is the oxygen transport substance in blood. Wikipedia has some good information on this metalloprotein, and a link is provided.
From where is the oxygen taken in from the blood?
Oxygen bonds to the iron in your hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is carried by your red blood cells. If I read your question correctly, You want to know where it leaves the blood; and the answer to that is in the capillaries. From there it diffuses into the cells, into the mitochondria, wherein it disappears (it's turned into water).
Which blood vessels carries the oxygen?
The primary function of blood is to carry oxygen from the lungs to the cells of the body. It contains a protein called hemoglobin that bonds with the oxygen in an oxygen rich environment like the lungs and that releases oxygen in an oxygen poor environment such as is found where cells are using oxygen. Some oxygen is also in solution in the blood plasma but this contributes little to meeting the oxygen needs of the body.
What is the protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells?
Haemoglobin - a protein that has a haem prosthetic group (which contains Iron).
How do you think oxygen gets from your lungs to all the cells of your body?
Oxygen diffuses through the alveoli in the lungs into the blood stream. Here, haemoglobin bonds with the oxygen, forming oxy-haemoglobin. When needed, the oxy-haemoglobin breaks down to form oxygen and haemoglobin to unload the oxygen into nearby cells.
What is the content of human red blood cells?
Red blood cells are packed with a chemical compound called hemoglobin, which has the ability to both absorb and release oxygen molecules.
