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pH)?



a. O2 would bind more readily to hemoglobin.
b. CO2 would bind more readily to hemoglobin.
c. O2 would release from hemoglobin.
d. CO2 would release from hemoglobin.
e. binding of O2 by hemoglobin would cease.


C

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