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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…
What is the iron containing protein that binds chemically to oxygen molecules?
Hemoglobin, sometimes spelled haemoglobin in British Commonwealth countries.
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.
What is responsible for the RBC's ability to transport oxygen and CO2?
It is an iron-based protein called hemoglobin.
What is a protein that binds with oxygen molecules?
Hemoglobin binds with oxygen molecules. Hemoglobin is a protein molecule.
What protein inside red blood cells binds oxygen?
Hemoglobin
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.
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 protein combines with oxygen in the blood for transport?
The protein haemoglobin found in red blood cells binds reversibly with oxygen. It is the oxygen transporter in blood, and when combined with oxygen the product is oxyhaemoglobin. One haemoglobin molecule binds with four oxygen molecules in accordance with the chemical equation: Hb + 4O2 -> Hb(O2)4 Note: Hb is haemoglobin; Hb(O2)4 is oxyhaemoglobin
For what organic function is the protein hemoglbin in the red blood cells important?
The protein hemoglobin binds with oxygen so that the red blood cells can carry oxygen throughout the body. The oxygen is used by the body's cells in aerobic cellular respiration.
Oxygen binds with hemoglobin in the blood to form?
oxygen binds with hemoglobin in the lungs and forms oxyhemoglobin.
What is an iron - containing protein that binds to oxygen molecules?
hemoglobin
What part of the blood cell carries oxygen?
hemoglobin
What part of blood binds oxygen?
Hemoglobin.
What is an iron containing protein that binds chemically to oxygen molecules?
hemoglobin
