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Why is human blood red and octopus blood blue?
The blue comes from a copper-rich protein called hemocyanin, which carries oxygen from the lungs to the bloodstream and then to the cells of the octopus’s body. Hemoglobin, an iron-containing protein found in the blood of other animals—including humans—serves the same oxygen-transporting function but turns blood red.
What color is an octopus’s blood?
blue blood
Octopuses have blue blood, three hearts and a doughnut-shaped brain.
Why is blood blue in the body?
But this is wrong; human blood is never blue. The bluish color of veins is only an optical illusion. Blue light does not penetrate as far into tissue as red light. If the blood vessel is sufficiently deep, your eyes see more blue than red reflected light due to the blood’s partial absorption of red wavelengths.
Why are veins blue if blood is red?
Veins appear blue because blue light is reflected back to our eyes. Blue light does not penetrate human tissue as deeply as red light does. As a result, veins that are close to the surface of the skin will be more likely to reflect blue light back to the eye.”
Why are veins blue and not red?
Why is blood sometimes blue?
Even people who have been cut, or have witnessed an accident scene, or had blood drawn, cleave to the conviction of blood’s sometime blueness. Such conviction and confidence when everything — when all the evidence — speaks loudly against, can only be the result of some prejudice or bias.
Why is human blood red in color?
Human blood is red because hemoglobin, which is carried in the blood and functions to transport oxygen, is iron-rich and red in color. Octopuses and horseshoe crabs have blue blood. This is because the protein transporting oxygen in their blood, hemocyanin, is actually blue.
Why is the blood of a Vulcan blue?
Octopuses and horseshoe crabs have blue blood. This is because the protein transporting oxygen in their blood, hemocyanin, is actually blue. The blood of a vulcan is green, according to the story anyway, and this is presumably because the stuff that carries oxygen in the vulcan’s blood is green. But our blood is red.
Is your blood red inside or outside your body?
While the shade of red may vary depending on how much oxygen your red blood cells are carrying, your blood is red, both outside and inside your body. Bodies are amazing!