Multiple choice

Which of the following forms of blood in our body carries relatively lesser oxygen?

  1. Deoxygenated blood

  2. Oxygenated blood

  3. Anoxygenic blood

  4. None of these
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Explanation

Deoxygenated blood has delivered its oxygen to body tissues and is returning to the lungs. It contains relatively less oxygen than oxygenated blood. There is no such term as 'anoxygenic blood' in physiology - this is a distractor.

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