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Why is the pharmacological reactivation of fetal hemoglobin in apatient with sickle cell anemia often a successful treatment?

a. Fetal hemoglobin is better able to release carbon dioxide thanis adult hemoglobin.
b.Fetal hemoglobin binds more oxygen molecules than adulthemoglobin.
c. Fetal hemoglobin is better able to release oxygen than is adulthemoglobin.
d. Fetal hemoglobin has a higher affinity for carbon dioxide thandoes adult hemoglobin.
e. Fetal hemoglobin has a higher affinity for oxygen than doesadult hemoglobin.

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