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What is the shape of the oxygen dissociation curve?
AParabolic
BLinear
CSigmoid
DHyperbolic
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Sigmoid
Plotting haemoglobin saturation against pO2 gives an S-shaped, sigmoid curve.
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