In the lungs, oxygen diffuses into the blood and is loaded onto hemoglobin for transport. in the tissues, oxygen is unloaded from hemoglobin and diffuses from the blood into nearby cells. what drives the diffusion of oxygen?

(a) body temperature
(b) partial pressure of oxygen
(c) concentration of nitric oxide
(d) partial pressure of carbon dioxide
(e) blood ph

B) partial pressure of oxygen

Explanation:All tissues and cells in the body require oxygen to carry our respiration for the provision of energy in the form of ATP.Oxygen is exchanged in the lungs and is loaded into hemoglobin, a pigment in the red blood cells that carries oxygen in the tissues. This occurs through simple diffusion that is facilitated by a concentration gradient.In the tissues, internal respiration takes place where oxygen is unloaded from hemoglobin and diffuses into nearby cells. Diffusion occurs as a result of the difference in the partial pressure of oxygen in the blood vessels and that in the blood tissues.The partial pressure of oxygen in the blood vessels is higher compared to partial pressure in the cells, thus, the oxygen gas will diffuse into the cells.

Answer: abeexplanation:

1. the question asks the most appropriate, which seems to rule out "all of the above." your choice appears to be the correct one.

2. the protocol described is good for identifying correlation, but not cause and effect. for cause/effect, you need to devise a protocol that will assign the treatment (or not) to groups that have essentially the same "demographics" with respect to all the other variables. your choice regarding control group seems appropriate. random assignment of treatment (choice d) may be appropriate also. (i think you can argue that b and d are just different descriptions of the same method.)

3. d will randomize the birds, but may not guarantee there are 10 in each group. e will do both, so seems the better choice.

comment on question 2

based on the problem statement, it seems clear that confident, attentive drivers are more likely to use daytime running lights. so, the protocol might need to be devised in such a way that the lights would be turned on or off without the driver's knowledge. (an attentive driver will figure it out.) assigning a confident, attentive driver to a group required to drive without running lights might mess with his/her confidence and attentiveness. you don't want your experiment to do that. (nor do you want the experiment to subject a driver to greater risk of accident as a consequence of driving without running lights.) experiments involving human safety are always problematic.

They are all decomposition reactions.