Question:

Bohr effect is related with

Updated On: Aug 15, 2022
  • reduced carbon level in lymph
  • reduced oxygen level in haemoglobin
  • oxidised phosphorus level in blood
  • reduced carbon dioxide level in blood.
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Bohr effect is the phenomenon whereby the affinity of the respiratory pigment of the blood for oxygen is reduced, and the level of carbon dioxide is increased. This facilitates gaseous exchange, because more oxygen is released in the tissues where the amount of carbon dioxide is rising due to metabolic activity. At the same time, more oxygen is taken up at the lungs where the amount of carbon dioxide is low.
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Breathing and Exchange of Gases

A metabolic process, which is carried out by all living organisms including plants, animals, and humans for the production of energy and to stay alive is Respiration.  Except for required anaerobes, every other organism from amoeba to humans needs oxygen for survival. And evolution has reported a number of systems that allows the exchange of gases in organisms.

There are two types of respiration such as;

  1. Aerobic respiration — to produce energy, it occurs in the presence of oxygen
  2. Anaerobic respiration — to produce energy, occurs in the absence of oxygen

Breathing can be simply derived as the process of inhaling oxygen gas from the atmosphere and exhaling the carbon dioxide gas back into the atmosphere is termed breathing and the process is commonly known as respiration.

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