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In what form does oxygen travel in the blood? What form
of carbon dioxide?

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Answer:

Oxygen is carried both physically dissolved in the blood and chemically combined to hemoglobin. Carbon dioxide is carried physically dissolved in the blood, chemically combined to blood proteins as carbamino compounds, and as bicarbonate.

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