Hemoglobin's oxygen-binding curve is sigmoidal because O 02 binding shifts hemoglobin to a high-affinity conformation. O each O2-binding site in hemoglobin operates independently. O hemoglobin has four O2-binding sites. O 02 must first be released from myoglobin.

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