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The heme portion of hemoglobin contains ______________, which carries oxygen inside the red blood cell.



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The heme portion of hemoglobin contains one iron atom , which carries oxygen inside the red blood cell.

Heme is an iron-containing molecule that is important for many biological processes. Heme combines with globin proteins to form hemoglobin, which carries oxygen in red blood cells from the lungs to the rest of the body.

Each hemoglobin molecule built up of four heme groups surrounding a globin group, forming a tetrahedral structure. Heme, has only 4 percent of the weight of the molecule, forms a ring like organic compound known as a porphyrin to which an iron atom is attached.

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