Saturday, 21 November 2015

cellular respiration - Why do red blood cells contain haemoglobin and not myoglobin?


So I am reading about muscles and I come across myoglobin. It has a much higher affinity for oxygen than haemoglobin. So why have animals evolved to have haemoglobin in red blood cells, rather than myoglobin, which would be much more advantageous?




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