Compare the structure and function of hemoglobin and myoglobin. Which oxygen binding curve in the graph below belongs to myoglobin and which to hemoglobin? Please specify. Explain the effect of pH on oxygen binding to hemoglobin, and show on the graph in which direction the pH will shift if it falls below the physiological pH value (7.4).

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