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They make up about 45% to 50%
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of the volume of blood is red cells.
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They're red because they contain
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a special protein called hemoglobin
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which is very concentrated inside the cell.
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Hemoglobin, as you know, is an oxygen carrier
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and so red blood cells concentrate in bags of hemoglobin
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which circulate in your blood and they carry oxygen.
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Well, it was not very
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hard for me to draw this red blood cell here,
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it's just an oval, and one reason I draw it like an oval,
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is that that's basically what it looks like if you look at it.