Explain giving reasons "The presence of CO reduces the amount of haemoglobin available in the blood for carrying oxygen to the body cells."

Explain giving reasons "The presence of CO reduces the amount of haemo

1.	Explain giving reasons "The presence of CO reduces the amount of haemoglobin available in the blood for carrying oxygen to the body cells."
Answer» Solution :CO combines with haemoglobin of the red blood corpuscles (RBC) about 200 times more easily than oxygen to FORM CARBOXYHEMOGLOBIN reversibly as follows: `Hb+CO hArr HbCO` Thus, it is not able to combine with oxygen to form oxyhemoglobin and transport of oxygen to different body CELLS cannot take PLACE