Question:

Hamburger's phenomenon is also known as

Updated On: Jul 28, 2022
  • chloride shift
  • Haldane effect
  • Bohr effect
  • hydrogen shift
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During $CO_2$ transport, when carbon dioxide diffuses into $RBCs$, it combines with water to form carbonic acid which being unstable quickly forms $H^+$ and bicarbonate ions. The bicarbonate ions are quite diffusible and diffuse from $RBC$, into plasma. To maintain the ionic balance, chloride ions move from plasma into $RBCs$. This ionic exchange is called chloride shift or Hamburger's phenomenon.
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Concepts Used:

Cellular Respiration

Cellular respiration is a set of metabolic reactions that occurs inside the cells to convert biochemical energy obtained from the food into a chemical compound known as adenosine triphosphate (ATP). A set of chemical reactions that are carried out for maintaining the living state of the cells in an organism are called metabolism.

These can be divided into two types:

  • Catabolism – the process of splitting molecules to obtain energy.
  • Anabolism – the process of arranging all compounds required by the cells.

Therefore, respiration is a catabolic process, which breakdown larger molecules into smaller ones, releasing energy to fuel cellular activities.