The partial pressure of oxygen in the

a. atmospheric air averages 79% of total atmospheric pressure.
b. blood is the most important factor that determines the extent to which O2 will combine with hemoglobin.
c. arterial blood is decreased when hemoglobin preferentially combines with CO rather than O2.
d. both (a) and (b) above.
e. all of these answers.


B

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