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What is the iron containing protein that is found in red blood cells and carries oxygen from the lungs?
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The iron-containing protein found in red blood cells that carries oxygen is called hemoglobin.
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What is the protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells?
Haemoglobin - a protein that has a haem prosthetic group (which contains Iron).
Which part of the blood carries the oxygen?
The red blood cells contain a globular protein called Haemoglobin, which carries oxygen by combining the oxygen molecules to its haem groups.
When tissue lining a blood vessel is damaged the first thing that happens is?
The blood cells containing hemoglobin, an iron-containing protein that transports oxygen, are called
Where is the largest store of oxygen in the body?
In your blood. The protein hemoglobin carries oxygen-molecules between the lungs and the peripheral tissues and organs.
Is the iron-containing protein in muscle cells that controls oxygen uptake from red blood cells?
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.
What is the protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells?
Haemoglobin - a protein that has a haem prosthetic group (which contains Iron).
What does hemglobin mean?
Heamoglobin is a iron-containing protein found in red blood cells. It is the part of our blood that carries the oxygen.
What is oxy-hemoglobin?
It is hemoglobin that carries oxygen
What protein carries oxygen to muscles?
The hemoglobin which exists inside our RBCs (Red Blood Cells) carries the oxygen from lungs throughout our entire body.
What is the object that carries oxygen in the blood?
There is a protein in red blood cells called hemoglobin. This is the substance that carries oxygen throughout the bloodstream.
Carries 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).
The protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells is?
HAEMOGLOBIN
What are the functions of a protein macromolecules?
Carries oxygen through blood.
Which is a pigment in blood that carries oxygen?
haemoglobin a comles compound of protein with iron
What is the blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrient-containing blood away from the heart?
artery
What blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrient-containing blood away from the the heart is a?
artery
