Sentences with phrase «forming haemoglobin»

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PEOPLE with sickle cell anaemia produce a defective form of haemoglobin that makes their red blood cells stiff.

Crocodiles use a waste product of metabolism — the bicarbonate ions formed when carbon dioxide dissolves in water — as the trigger for haemoglobin to unload the oxygen it carries.

But to work, to build proteins or whatever else it does, the DNA requires the rest of the metabolic apparatus of the cell — or of the whole blood - forming system in the case of genes involved in the synthesis of haemoglobin.

Iron is not only fascinating chemically, having six more oxidation states than silver, but it has a rich biological chemistry too, forming the core of the oxygen - carrying proteins in blood — myoglobin and haemoglobin — and playing centre field in many enzymatic systems.