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Chapter 47, Problem 8U
Summary Introduction
Introduction:
Just like oxygen carbon dioxide is also a respiratory gas. But it is respired out of the body as this gas is not useful to humans in the process of respiration like oxygen. It is formed by the process of
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Carbon Dioxide is carried in the blood by all the following means except:
a.
dissolved in plasma
b.
as bicarbonate
c.
as carbonic acid
d.
bound to hemoglobin
e.
all of these methods are used to transport carbon dioxide in blood
Most carbon dioxide is transported in the blood a. dissolved within the plasma as carbon dioxide. b. in association with hemoglobin. c. as bicarbonate ion. d. in combination with oxygen.
Most of the carbon dioxide in the blood is carried in the form of a. dissolved CO2 b. carbaminohemoglobin. c. bicarbonate. d.carboxyhemoglobin.
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