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Heme vs Chlorophyll - What's the difference?

heme | chlorophyll |

As nouns the difference between heme and chlorophyll

is that heme is heme / haem while chlorophyll is chlorophyll (green pigment).

heme

English

Alternative forms

* haem (British )

Noun

  • The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen, consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen.
  • * 2008 , John Greer, John Foerster, George Rodgers, Fixos Paraskevas, Bertil Glader, Daniel Arber, Robert Means Jr, Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology: Volume One: Twelfth Edition , page 141:
    • The binding of oxygen to the iron molecule causes the hemoglobin molecule to undergo conformational changes that affect the binding of oxygen to other heme sites.

    Derived terms

    * diheme * monoheme * multiheme * octaheme * tetraheme * triheme

    See also

    * hemoglobin * bilirubin * red blood cell * ----

    chlorophyll

    English

    (wikipedia chlorophyll)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (biochemistry) Any of a group of green pigments that are found in the chloroplasts of plants and in other photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria.

    • Derived terms

    * chlorophyll a * chlorophyll b * chlorophyll c * chlorophyllous

    Coordinate terms

    * anthocyanin, carotenoid, xanthophyll