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Red blood cells contain the substance haemoglobin, which is an iron-based molecule that binds to oxygen molecules for transport around the body.
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Spiders have transparent blood?
Spiders have blue blood. In human blood oxygen is bound to hemoglobin which contains iron, giving it the blood a red color. In spiders, as well as other Arthropods and Molluscs, oxygen is bound to hemocyanin which contains copper, giving its blood a blue color. The same interaction that causes oxygenated blood to color, also causes iron rust to appear reddish and the oxidized copper to appear green. However, I have noticed no color in spider blood before.
Why squids blood contains haemocyanin?
Since squids do not have haemoglobin they use haemocyanin to bind and transport oxygen throughout their body.
How your lungs refine oxygen from other gases?
Your lungs refine oxygen from the other gases in air because the gases diffuse through the cell walls in the alveoli in your lungs through osmosis (higher concentration of gases in the air than in the blood, so gases move from the higher concentration to the lower concentration) where they contact the red blood cells. The hemoglobin in the red blood cells binds to the oxygen and leaves all the other gases alone. It moves on from the lungs and delivers the oxygen to the rest of the body. It's the hemoglobin that does the work.
What ventricle contains deoxygenated blood?
what ventricile contains deoxynated blood
What is the component of plasma that maintains the osmotic pressure of blood?
The component of plasma that maintains the osmotic pressure of blood is protein. The protein albumin and others maintain osmotic pressure in blood.
Oxygen binds with hemoglobin in the blood to form?
oxygen binds with hemoglobin in the lungs and forms oxyhemoglobin.
What part of blood binds oxygen?
Hemoglobin.
What does the blood carry with it as it goes to the tissues or cells of the body?
Blood contains a chemical called hemoglobin which binds oxygen and is also able to bing a small amount of carbon dioxide.
What binds with oxygen and increases the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity?
c02
How is transported oxygen by blood in animals?
Oxygen binds to a molecule called hemoglobin in red blood cells.
In red blood cells oxygen binds by interacting with what?
Heme
What makes red blood cells bind oxygen to their structure?
when a red blood cell come into contact with the oxygen, the hemoglobin present in red blood cell produce a compound named " oxyhimoglobin", and thus it carries oxygen.
Which component of your blood do inhalant vapors replace?
the component taken from your blood when using inhalants is OXYGEN.
What part of the cigarette decreases the flow of oxygen to the heart?
Tobacco smoke contains carbon monoxide which more readily binds with red blood cells than does oxygen. So there is less oxygen getting to the heart and more carbon monoxide.
Which blood component is responsible for oxygen exchange?
Red blood cells are responsible for oxygen exchange
What is hemoglobin's function in a red blood cell?
Hemoglobin binds with oxygen so that the red blood cells can carry oxygen throughout the body.
Which cells transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues?
Red blood cells because they are your main source of blood. White blood cells help protect your body from harmful diseases and the flu. Your white blood cells even fight an infection in your body when you have a fever!
