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Erythrocytes (Red Blood Cells)

- specialized for oxygen transport

- mature erythrocytes have no nucleus instead these disk - shaped cells are packed with the respiratory pigment Hemoglobin

*Hemoglobin is an iron containing molecule that binds with oxygen

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Erythrocytes are Red Blood Cells. They carry oxygen around the body to organs around the body.

Erythrocytes : --Develop from stem cells in the bone marrow

--Lose their nucleus just prior to entering circulation

--Transport oxygen and carbon dioxide to and from the tissues

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Red blood cells, or erythrocytes, are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate organism's principal means of delivering oxygen (O2) to the body tissues via the blood flow through the circulatory system. They take up oxygen in the lungs or gills and release it while squeezing through the body's capillaries.

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