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The phenomenon of cooperativity exhibited by the hemoglobin molecule in binding of oxygen has to be explained.

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Oxygen is transported around the body by the globular protein hemoglobin which contains four Fe2* ions. Hemoglobin is “oxygenated" when coordinated to dissolved oxygen in the blood. This can be simplistically represented by the following equation (where Hb represents one hemoglobin molecule): н (ад) + 402 (д) + нь(02)4 (аq) (1) Hemoglobin also readily binds with carbon monoxide (CO). Indeed, hemoglobin has a much higher affinity to CO than O2 resulting in significantly stronger hemoglobin binding to CO than to O2. This is a problem because hemoglobin molecules which are coordinated to carbon monoxide are unable to transport oxygen around the body as needed. No more than 2.5% of your body's hemoglobin can be bound to CO before health effects become noticeable. The consequence is that even very low partial pressures of CO in the air have physiological implications for humans. нь (ад) + 4Cо (д) + нь(со)4 (аq) (2) Compare and evaluate the relative magnitudes of the equilibrium constant for…
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