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Old 05-07-2003, 09:20 AM
Dr. Rev. Chuck, M.D. P.A.
 
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Iris Cohen wrote:

Legumes have a kind of hemoglobin called Leghemoglobin, it is red like other
hemoglobins. BRBR

This is news to me. Plants have hemoglobin?


Not impossible, since chlorophyll and hemoglobin differ only in the metal
at their center.

I thought it was only for animals.
I thought chlorophyll was the plant equivalent of hemoglobin. What do plants do
with hemoglobin?
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