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Carbon dioxide combines reversibly with haemoglobin to form carbaminohaemoglobin. Carbon dioxide does not bind to iron, as oxygen does, but to amino groups on the polypeptide chains of haemoglobin. Thanks a lot. John Messick

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... but my textbook says that carboxyhemoglobin is formed they are both referring to the transport of carbon dioxide (the way that CO2 combines with haemoglobin)

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which is formed when carbon dioxide combines with haemoglobin(some carbon dioxide is carried by haemoglobin)? my textbook says that, carboxyhemoglobin is formed ,but i found that carbaminohemoglobin is formed instead on the internet . which one is ...

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... huge (I think it contains several very long introns, doesn't it?). Cannot it be bigger than ribosome? Well, for starters there are several "haemoglobin genes" (e.g. genes for the alpha chains and beta globins) in humans to begin with, and as the original question does not tell us which ...

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... blood is colourless if you remove erythrocytes, but I doubt we can call it blood anymore then. Blood is blue if you have haemocyanin instead of haemoglobin, but that require you to be a horseshoe crab or similar, which utilizes copper instead of iron to carry oxygen. And I do not think we are ...

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