BI110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Red, Hemoglobin, Niels Bohr

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Living organisms are composed of elements, molecules and matter. The blood of most vertebrates contains hemoglobin as the main oxygen-transporting protein. Iron binds oxygen in hemoglobin, giving vertebrate blood its characteristic red colour. Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space. Although matter comes in many different forms, all matter is composed of the same types of particles. Matter appears different at all different levels of magnification. An atom is the smallest particle of an element that has the properties of that element, and each element"s atoms consists of several subatomic particles. An element is a pure substance made up of one kind of atom. All matter, whether humans, rocks or trees, is made up of elements. An element is a pure substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances by chemical means. The word element refers to a specific substance, not its component atoms. Of the 118 known elements, 92 occur naturally.

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