Question
The binding of oxygen to hemoglobin can be characterized as ____.
Answer
The binding of oxygen to hemoglobin can be characterized as sigmoidal, cooperative.
When one O2 molecule binds to ONE OF THE FOUR heme groups in a hemoglobin, it becomes more likely that the remaining sites will bind to O2
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