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What is the red pigment in red blood cell?

Hemoglobin


What give the red blood cell red?

Haemoglobin is the red pigment in red blood cells.


Is there something that determines the shape of a red blood cell?

A red blood cell contains a red pigment known as HAEMOGLOBIN.We know that haemoglobin is a protein.Its structure is quertenary which means its made up of coiled polypeptides.2 beta and 2 alpho.This therefore means the shape of a red blood cell is determined by quertenary structure of its red pigment.


Red pigment in red blood cells?

its called hemoglobin. it is the pigment which carries oxygen in blood


Name one substance that red blood cell carries?

Haemoglobin is the red pigment that carries oxygen to the body cells.


What is the description for erythrocytes?

A red blood cell that (in humans) is typically a biconcave disc without a nucleus. Erythrocytes contain the pigment hemoglobin, which imparts the red color to blood, and transport oxygen and carbon dioxide to and from the tissues.


Does Oxygen in the bloodstream flow into the cell's?

Oxygen is transported from the lungs to the body's cell by the red blood cells in the blood. The oxygen attaches to the iron atoms that are attached to the haemoglobin with in the blood. (haemoglobin is reason the blood is red. haeme or heme is a red pigment that makes up haemoglobin)


What is another name for blood pigment?

The pigment which gives mammal blood its red colour is hemoglobin, which is contained within the red blood cells.


What gives red blood cells there red color?

They haemoglobin pigment present in the blood gives it the red colour.this pigment is found in the RBCs hence making them red in colour.


Where is the red pigment of a red onion?

cell membrane


Which blood cells contain a respiratory pigment-?

Regular blood cells contain respiratoy pigment in them.


Red blood cells have nuleous?

Assuming that the question asked whether or not a red blood cell has a nucleus, the answer is no. Erythrocytes have no nuclei to create more space for the containment of haemoglobin, the red pigment that is responsible for the uptake of oxygen.