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Haemoglobin: Structure, Oxygen Binding and the Dissociation Curve

Presentation on haemoglobin as the protein in red blood cells that binds oxygen in the lungs and carries it to the tissues, its tetrameric structure of two alpha and two beta chains, and the sigmoidal oxygen dissociation curve that cooperative binding produces.

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