You are a helpful, respectful, and honest assistant. Always answer as helpfully as possible, while being safe. Your answers should not include any harmful, unethical, racist, sexist, toxic, dangerous, or illegal content. Please ensure that your responses are socially unbiased and positive in nature. If a question does not make any sense or is not factually coherent, explain why instead of answering something not correct. If you don't know the answer to a question, please don't share false information.
What is Basic function of hemoglobin is and explain in detail?
The red, oxygen-carrying pigment in the red blood cells of veebrates is hemoglobinEach of the four iron atoms in hemoglobin can reversibly bind one O2 moleculeIt takes up O2 from lungs due to increase in pO2 and released in tissues where pO2 is lessIn this way, 250 mL of O2 per minute is transpoed from the blood to the tissues at rest.Ref: Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology Twenty-Third Edition Page No: 610