Highly active muscle respiration generates so many protons that the blood passing through the muscle experiences a drop in pH from about 7.4 to about 7.2. Explain what repercussions this has on hemoglobin function, and how it occurs.
Ans) The affinity of haemoglobin for oxygen decrease . Therefore it dissociate more readily at higher partial pressure of oxygen .Releasing more oxygen to the respiratory tissue. Aerobic respiration produces carbon dioxide which dissolved in blood plasma to produce carbonic acid. Which dissociates , increasing the number of hydrogen ions .Therfore, decrease the pH from 7.4 to 7.2 in a tissue. The dissociation curve at pH 7.2be in realtion to pH 7.4 will be right.
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