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Name the substance in red blood cells that combines with oxygen?
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∙ 9y ago
The protein "Hemoglobin" is responsible for the red color. Each hemoglobin molecule can bind up to 4 oxygen atoms. When fully loaded with oxygen atoms the protein takes on a more bright red color. When deprived of oxygen the protein takes on a darker red/blue color.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 9y agoHemoglobin is the substance in red blood cells that bind oxygen to the blood cell. Hemoglobin is an iron containing binding metalloprotein
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What two substances are needed for respiration to take place?
The oxygen in the uvula first combines with the red blood cells and the co2 combines with the whit blood cells
What substance is used up during photosynthesis?
oxygen is used up in respiration.
What does blood contain that carrys oxygen to the cells and wastes away from the cells?
Hemoglobin is what transports the oxygen in the red blood cells.
What transports oxygen to cells in body?
ways of transporting oxygen (presumably in the human body you are referring to) it is carried in the blood as part of the circulatory system-it is picked up from the lungs through alveoli -majorly carried in the blood as oxyhaemoglobin (oxygen combined with haemoglobin in red blood cells) -some can be dissolved in the blood plasma
What does blood carry throughout are body?
red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs through the pulmonary artery to the heart and then to the rest of the body.
What is the compound inside red blood cells that combines with oxygen?
Hemoglobin
What protein containing iron in red blood cells that combines with and transports O2?
Hemoglobin is the iron containing protein in our red blood cells that combines with and carries oxygen.
Which substance transports oxygen in the blood?
red blood cells
Which substance in the blood picks up the oxygen?
Hemoglobin is the substance in the blood that picks up oxygen. Hemoglobin is found on red blood cells.
What substance is created by cellular respiration?
red blood cells, oxygen, and white blood cells
What happen when oxygen combines with the red blood cells?
became bright the red blood cells called hemeglobin
What is the substance in red blood cells that carries oxygen?
hemoglobin
Which substance in the blood is responsible for carryingoxygen to the tissues?
what substance in the blood is responsible for carring oxygen to the tissues ?
What is one substance carried from the body's cells by the blood?
Oxygen is carried by the red blood cells. The hemoglobin in the blood mixes with oxygen, and this is transported to other parts of the body.
What is a substance which allows the red blood cells to carry oxygen and iron?
A red blood cell carries Oxygen and Carbon DIoxide
What load of substance are the red blood cells busy carrying?
oxygen
What two substances are needed for respiration to take place?
The oxygen in the uvula first combines with the red blood cells and the co2 combines with the whit blood cells
