AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Hemoglobin is a protein found in red blood cells (RBCs) that is comprised of two alpha and two beta subunits that surround an iron-containing heme group. Oxygen readily binds this heme group. The ability of oxygen to bind increases as more oxygen molecules are bound to heme.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hemoglobin is the protein that makes blood red. It is composed of four protein chains, two alpha chains and two beta chains, each with a ring-like heme group containing an iron atom. Oxygen binds reversibly to these iron atoms and is transported through blood.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hemoglobin contains iron, which allows it to pick up oxygen from the air we breathe and deliver it everywhere in the body. You can think of hemoglobin as the iron ("heme"), oxygen transport protein, ("globin") found in red blood cells.

Detailed explanation-4: -RBCs contain hemoglobin (pronounced: HEE-muh-glow-bin), a protein that carries oxygen. Blood gets its bright red color when hemoglobin picks up oxygen in the lungs. As the blood travels through the body, the hemoglobin releases oxygen to the different body parts.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hemoglobin and myoglobin both are the transport proteins, Hemoglobin transportation:-It carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body and a portion of carbon dioxide in the opposite direction.