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Explain why hemoglobin is more suitable for carrying oxygen in the blood and myoglobin more adept at storing oxygen in the skeletal muscles.

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Because their structures are different, both are proteins but are shaped in space differently, causing hemoglobin to saturate at high partial pressures of oxygen, and yield oxygen to the medium, while myoglobin at high partial pressures of oxygen will taking.

Step-by-step explanation:

Hemoglobin has a tetrahedral form, while myoglobin contains a triad form of three main components and not 4.

In addition, myoglobin must capture oxygen to oxygenate the muscle in muscle contraction, since this demands the presence of this gas and the energy currency that is called ATP.

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