foetal haemoglobin

• how will the graph for transportation of oxygen change from an adult to a foetal


  it will shift to the left
• what does a shift in the graph to the left mean

  there will be a higher affintity for oxygen
• Describe foetal haemoglobin


  there is a higher affinity for oxygen and therefore can load oxygen from the mothers blood at all partial pressures of oxygen
• once a baby is born why doesn't it retain its foetal haemoglobin


  ???( use the power point for an answer)