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How does fetal hemoglobin enhance oxygen transfer across the placenta from mother to fetus?
I'm not quite sure how it would ENHANCE oxygen transfer, but hemoglobin itself is what is in blood and is responsible for the carrying of oxygen to different parts of the body. So the hemoglobin in a fetus would just be what is used to get the oxygen from the mothers blood into its blood.
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When the baby is an embryo where does it get its nutrients?
During the embryonic stage, the baby receives its nutrients through the umbilical cord, which is connected to the placenta. The placenta allows for the transfer of oxygen and nutrients from the mother's blood to the developing embryo. This ensures that the baby receives the necessary nourishment for growth and development.
Energy can be transferred between objects and places through many different methods what forms of energy transfer can involve energy transfer across vacuums?
Radiation is a form of energy transfer that can occur across vacuums, such as in the form of electromagnetic waves like light and heat. This is because radiation does not require a medium to propagate.
What are integral and transmembrane proteins?
the proteins that protrude from both surfaces of the bilayer
How is hemoglobin used to compare evolutionary relationships between organisms?
Hemoglobin is used for molecular phylogenetic analysis to study evolutionary relationships between organisms because its structure and sequence can reveal similarities and differences among different species. By comparing the sequences of hemoglobin protein across different organisms, researchers can construct phylogenetic trees to determine the evolutionary relationships and common ancestors between species. This information is crucial for understanding evolutionary history and the relatedness between different organisms.
What occurs when carbon monoxide enters the lungs?
When air is inspired, it goes into the lungs, spreads across the alveoli which are like air sacs, and increases the oxygen content in the blood (through capillaries) with the help of hemoglobin. At the same time, carbon dioxide is being transferred into the alveoli by the capillaries used to transfer blood. The oxygen rich blood is sent through the pulmonary vein into the right side of the heart where it is transferred to the rest of the body. Meanwhile, the carbon dioxide that had been collected by the air sacs in the lungs is expired.
Two alpha chains and two gamma chains make up the protein globin part of?
Two alpha chains and two gamma chains make up the protein globin part of fetal hemoglobin (HbF). This type of hemoglobin is predominant in fetuses and newborns, and has a higher affinity for oxygen than adult hemoglobin (HbA), allowing for efficient oxygen transfer across the placenta.
How does the addiction of drugs from the mother get to the baby?
Drugs in the mother's bloodstream pass across the membrane of the placenta, and transfer to the unborn baby's blood by the umbilical cord, which connects the baby to the placenta.
What is area of gas exchange in fetus?
this is the function of the placenta, the mothers blood flows through capillaries that run very close to capillaries filled with the fetus' blood and the gases diffuse across due to the higher oxygen affinity of fetal haemoglobin.
What way does blood normally pass across the placenta?
blood does not pass across the placenta
Name 2 ways in which harmful substances can be passed onto the foetus?
To my knowledge there is only one way. Across the placenta and into the foetus. Everything taken into mothers body will pass across the placenta, around the system of the foetus and even returning waste back across the placenta through the magic of Osmosis.
Newborn infants gain most of their immunity from?
antibodies passed from the mother across the placenta
What substance is a waste that would normally diffuse across the placenta from the embryo to the mother?
glucose
What are the three harmful things that can pass across the placenta to the fetus?
alcahol canser and diseses
What is a level 4 placenta?
It is code for the position of the placenta in the womb. A placenta across the opening of the uterus and the baby is on top will need a cesearean section. a ultrasound will tell the doctor the positioning and will assist him/her in planning your delivery. good luck joymaker rn
What happens to a baby's blood as it passes through a placenta?
diffuse across the placental membranes into the mothers bloos.
How is rubella transferred?
It can be transmitted via airborne droplets, or by vertical transmission (across the placenta from mother to baby).
Which forms of energy transfer can involve energy transfer across vacuums?
Radiation
