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Explain transport of carbon dioxide by haemoglobin.

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As carbon dioxide from the tissue enter into blood, a small quantiy of about 45% enters into RBCs. In the RBCs , carbondioxide combines with haemoglobin and forms carbamino-haemoglobin. The carbamino-haemoglobin on reaching the lungs dissociates into haemoglobin, and carbon dioxide.
`CO_(2) + HbNH_(2) rarr `HbNHCOOH.
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