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Red blood cells are ____________ for oxygen transport and contain a pigment called hemoglobin.

*This pigment consists of four highly folded ____________ chains with a group containing iron at the ____________ of each chain.

*The iron combines ____________ with oxygen.

*Hemoglobin thus accepts oxygen in the ____________ and releases it in the ____________ .

*Carbon monoxide also attaches to hemoglobin and then ____________ easily let go.

Each hemoglobin can transport ____________ molecules of oxygen.