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Erythrocytes (Red Blood Cells)

- specialized for oxygen transport

- mature erythrocytes have no nucleus instead these disk - shaped cells are packed with the respiratory pigment Hemoglobin

*Hemoglobin is an iron containing molecule that binds with oxygen

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