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What gas blocks oxygen from combing with hemoglobin in the lungs?
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carbon monoxide (CO)
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Oxygen binds with hemoglobin in the blood to form?
oxygen binds with hemoglobin in the lungs and forms oxyhemoglobin.
How is oxygen transpoted by blood?
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.
Protein found in red blood cells that carries oxygen to the body?
oxygen makes your blood red. The Lungs put lungs into your blood system.
What hemoglobin does?
Transports oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues. Hemoglobin is what gives red blood cells their color.
How does oxygen tranfer from lungs to blood?
I believe it might be HEMOGLOBIN.
How does hemoglobin carry 02 in the blood?
It attaches itself to red blood cells(erythrocytes). Hemoglobin is what transports oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body.
What gas found in cigarette smoke blocks the transport of oxygen by the hemoglobin in the blood?
CO (carbon monoxide). It binds to the same sites on hemoglobin that oxygen would, except with a much greater affinity than oxygen does. Think of hemoglobin as a bus transporting oxygen from the lungs to the peripheral tissues, and think of CO as the guy who takes oxygen's seat so that he can't ride the bus. CO is also the chemical that kills people in house fires from smoke inhalation.
What is difference of oxygen saturation of hemoglobin in lungs verses exercising tissue?
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What allows hemoglobin content?
Basically hemoglobin is intended for oxygen transport from lungs to brain, muscle and whole body as needed...
How you get carbon dioxide out?
The same hemoglobin molecules that absorb oxygen in the lungs release it to the cells in the capillaries and pick up carbon dioxide from the cells. When the blood returns to the lungs, the hemoglobin releases the carbon dioxide and replaces it with fresh oxygen. The carbon dioxide released by the hemoglobin travels across the membranes in the lungs and is breathe out when we exhale.
What happens when hemoglobin is degraded?
The part of the blood that is responsible for carrying oxygen is hemoglobin. The hemoglobin binds to oxygen in the alveoli of the lungs. Then the hemoglobin releases the oxygen at the cells. The part of the hemoglobin molecule that is directly responsible for carrying the oxygen is the iron ion in the center of the molecule's structure. The iron ion changes from a Fe +2 ion to a Fe +3 when carrying the oxygen. Then the hemoglobin reaches the cell, the iron ion decomposes back to the more stable Fe +2 state, replacing the oxygen with a water molecule.
What is the iron containing protein that is found in red blood cells and carries oxygen from the lungs?
The iron-containing protein found in red blood cells that carries oxygen is called hemoglobin.
