Molecular Biology of the Cell (Sixth Edition)
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Author: Bruce Alberts, Alexander D. Johnson, Julian Lewis, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter
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To explain: How a molecule of hemoglobin is able to bind oxygen efficiently in the lungs and yet release it efficiently in the tissues.

Introduction: Hemoglobin is an oxygen carrying protein found in red blood cells of highe vertebrates. It contains two copies of α globin and two copies of β globin. The hemoglobin contain heme group to which oxygen is bound. Each molecule of hemoglobin carries four molecule of oxygen.

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