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Your questions is alot like asking why for example the atmosphere requires ozone. True it's properties affect the way sunlight enters the earth, and therefore life on earth, but it has an implicit "chicken or the egg" conundrum quality. The answer to "What is Iron's role in Haemoglobin's oxygen transport capabilities?", is related to Irons valency (Outer electrons, different oxidation states and energy setups)and the way it takes up and releases oxygen under different oxygen concentrations (when it is associated with the rest of the protien.
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∙ 10y agoBecause of the iron/ it is iron that bonds to the oxygen and also makes the RBCs red
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A gas that interfereswith oxygen transport by forming a stable bond with hemoglobin is?
Carbaminohemoglobin
What is the blood gas that is carried bond to heme of hemoglobin and dissolved in plasma?
Oxygen
What mineral that transports gases like oxygen around the body?
Hemoglobin transports gasses around the body. Hemoglobin contains iron and other minerals. It forms HbO8 and HbCO2 when bond with gasses.
Which mineral allows red blood cells to carry oxygen?
It is called hemoglobin. Hemoglobin carries oxygen and iron to the tissues.
What is the site of oxygen binding on hemoglobin?
You have Iron atoms in hemoglobin. This atom is the binding site for oxygen in case of hemoglobin.
What type of bond is present between oxygen and hemoglobin?
coordinated bond (covalent)
Why does the rise in temperature decrease the affinity of hemoglobin for oxygen?
The rise of temperature denatures the bond between oxygen and hemoglobin.
What can bond to hemoglobin and therefore deprive the body of oxygen?
CO
A gas that interfereswith oxygen transport by forming a stable bond with hemoglobin is?
Carbaminohemoglobin
What is the blood gas that is carried bond to heme of hemoglobin and dissolved in plasma?
Oxygen
With the Bohr effect more oxygen is released because?
A decrease in pH (acidosis) weakens the hemoglobin-oxygen bond.
How do damaged red blood cells affect the animal?
there is an inability for Oxygen to properly bond to the Hemoglobin molecules in the damaged cell
What is the oxygen in the blood transported by?
Oxygen in the blood is transported by hemoglobin.
What part of the blood cell carries oxygen?
hemoglobin
What mineral that transports gases like oxygen around the body?
Hemoglobin transports gasses around the body. Hemoglobin contains iron and other minerals. It forms HbO8 and HbCO2 when bond with gasses.
Which mineral allows red blood cells to carry oxygen?
It is called hemoglobin. Hemoglobin carries oxygen and iron to the tissues.
What is the site of oxygen binding on hemoglobin?
You have Iron atoms in hemoglobin. This atom is the binding site for oxygen in case of hemoglobin.
