Purpose Of Red Corpuscles

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The purpose of erythrocytes is to carry oxygen around the body to all structures. Red
Corpuscles can do this because of a protein they carry called haemoglobin which turns into oxyhaemoglobin when the red corpuscles are exposed to oxygen in the lungs. Once all the oxygen has gone from the red corpuscles they then collect and transport carbon dioxide to back to the lungs to be

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