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What does lead poisoning do to your blood?
Lead replaces Iron in your Hemoglobin. The Iron binds oxygen for transport to the cells. Lead does not bind the oxygen, and thus you effectively get less oxygen supply.
How does oxygen reach the body's cells?
Through the blood. Oxygen is drawn in by the lungs, binds to hemoglobin proteins within erythrocytes (aka red blood cells), and the erythrocytes are then pumped by the heart throughout the body, supplying all cells with oxygen.
Carbon monoxide blocks the ability of the blood to oxygenate the body because it?
deatroys the number of circulating red blood cells
What turns blood red?
The protein hemoglobin, which carries oxygen in the blood, changes shape when it binds oxygen. When it changes shape, it absorbs different wavelengths of light, making it change color. When blood is exposed to air, much more of the hemoglobin absorbs oxygen than had in the vein the blood came from (in the veins, the hemoglobin has already given up most of its oxygen to the body). Therefore, the blood turns red.Source(s):http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bi…
If the blood leaves the right side of the heart deoxygenated and returns to the left side oxygenated what gas has been added to the blood?
The answer to this very question is simply gas. When blood leaves the heart deoxygenated it immediately goes to the lungs to receive oxygen which is a gas and this gas goes to the left side of the heart.
How is transported oxygen by blood in animals?
Oxygen binds to a molecule called hemoglobin in red blood cells.
Oxygen binds with hemoglobin in the blood to form?
oxygen binds with hemoglobin in the lungs and forms oxyhemoglobin.
What part of blood binds oxygen?
Hemoglobin.
What binds with oxygen and increases the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity?
c02
How is oxygen transferred to the cell?
Oxygen is transferred to the cells by our red blood cells which have a special molecule called hemoglobin inside. The hemoglobin molecule binds to the oxygen molecule and the reb blood cells transports the oxygen to wherever it is needed.
In red blood cells oxygen binds by interacting with what?
Heme
What is the name of the thing in our blood that transport oxygen?
Red blood cells are packed full of a protein called hemoglobin. Hemoglobin has a molecule of iron in each protein molecule. This hemoglobin is what carries oxygen. The oxygen binds with the iron.
What component of blood contains iron that binds with oxygen?
Red blood cells contain the substance haemoglobin, which is an iron-based molecule that binds to oxygen molecules for transport around the body.
What is hemoglobin's function in a red blood cell?
Hemoglobin binds with oxygen so that the red blood cells can carry oxygen throughout the body.
What does the blood carry with it as it goes to the tissues or cells of the body?
Blood contains a chemical called hemoglobin which binds oxygen and is also able to bing a small amount of carbon dioxide.
What protein binds to oxygen?
The molecule that carries oxygen is the hemoglobin molecule. The cell that carries oxygen is the red blood cell.Blood. Red Blood cells. Or Haemoglobin in the red blood cells depending on what level you are looking at.The protein that carries oxygen in the blood is Haemoglobin(hemoglobin).
What are the jobs of red blood cells in transportation?
Red blood cells contain the protein hemoglobin, which binds with oxygen, and transport the oxygen throughout the body.
