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Hemoglobin/haemoglobin (two different spellings of the same thing). It's a protein made up of four separate protein chains, each of which has a heme group, which has as its central feature a porphyrin ring containing an iron atom. This is what gives red blood cells their characteristic color (which is actually more of a dark purple than red when carbon dioxide is bound to the heme groups).

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What is a substance which allows the red blood cells to carry oxygen and iron?

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What blood part carries carbon dioxide back to the lungs to be exhaled?

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What process carries oxygen to and carbon dioxide away from cells?

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What substances carry in blood?

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What carries oxygen and carbon dioxide throughout the body?

Blood.


What does the blood carry away from body cells?

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What is the major function of the blood in your body?

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What are the waste gas that blood carries away from these cells?

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What carries carbon dioxide enriched blood back to the heart?

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