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What is responsible for the RBC's ability to transport oxygen and CO2?
It is an iron-based protein called hemoglobin.
Most of the oxygen in the blood is transported?
Oxygen molecules are bound to the red pigment HEMOGLOBIN, a protein complex found exclusively in red blood cells. A very small amount of oxygen is also dissolved in the liquid portion of blood, but hemoglobin carries the bulk of oxygen.
What is the major distinction between simple asphyxiation and chemical asphyxiants?
with a chemical asphyxiant there may be plenty of oxygen in the air, but it (oxygen) is unable to attach to the blood cells; and with a simple asphyxant there is not enough oxygen in the atmospheric environment
What does hemoglobins mean?
Hemoglobin is the name of a protein that is found in red blood cells, which has the capacity to absorb and release oxygen.
Why is oxygen important to blood and other cells?
Oxygen is needed for respiration. This is how all our cells release energy. All the body cells and white blood cells therefore need oxygen. Red blood cells don't use oxygen, they undergo anaerobic respiration, but they transport the oxygen needed by other cells.
What protein carries oxygen in a RBC?
Iron actually helps oxygen molecules attach to red blood cells, so they can be transported through the body.
Blood cells that use protein to capture and carry oxygen is?
Blood cells use a protein called hemoglobin to capture oxygen.
Which protein present in red blood cells is responsible for the transport of oxygen?
Hemoglobin is the protein that carries oxygen found in red blood cells.
The name of the protein found in red blood cells that plays an essential role in oxygen transport is?
Blood carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. To do this blood cells have a specialized protein that is able to bind oxygen to the blood cell. This protein is known as hemoglobin.
Oxygen is transported in the human blood by what type of cell?
Erythrocytes are red blood cells, and they transport oxygen through the veins by use of hemoglobin--an iron containing protein, brought together from two polypeptides modified after ribosomal construction, that oxygen can attach to.
What is the protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells?
Haemoglobin - a protein that has a haem prosthetic group (which contains Iron).
What is the oxygen carrying protein in the red blood cells?
Hemoglobin
The protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells is?
HAEMOGLOBIN
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.
What is in the blood cells that enables them to carry oxygen?
Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells that enables them to carry oxygen. Iron is an important component of 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.
How does a blood cell carry oxygen?
Hemoglobin! It'S a protein found in red blood cells that allows blood to carry oxygen.
