Discussion:
Human Hemoglobin Sample
Normal Human Hemoglobin (HbA) P50 = 26 torr and the hill coefficientis N= 2.8
You have obtained the following oxygen binding curve data on a new sample of human hemoglobin.
A) Is this sample normal?
(This can be solved by visual inspection)
po2 log(po2) Theta theta/1-Theta) Log(theta/1-Theta)
10 1.000 0.0039 0.0039 -2.4089
20 1.301 0.0588 0.0625 -1.2041
30 1.477 0.2404 0.3164 -0.4998
40 1.602 0.5 1.0000 0.0000
50 1.699 0.7094 2.4410 0.3876
60 1.778 0.8351 5.0630 0.7044
70 1.845 0.9037 9.3790 0.9722
80 1.903 0.9412 16.0000 1.2041
90 1.954 0.9624 25.6300 1.4087
100 2.000 0.975 39.0600 1.5917