I used to notice in our food culture in Iraq that a person who suffers from anemia or loses blood is advised to eat celery with the spleen, and I did not know the reason until after my academic studies of plant pigments (chlorophyll) and the Similarity large between them and hemoclobin, as well as that the spleen is the cemetery of iron.
How can some customs and traditions be correct even though at the time of their spread there was no great scientific progress as is the case at the present time?
Chlorophyll and hemoglobin are two important pigments necessary for plant life and animal life respectively. Photosynthetic organisms such as plants, algae, and cyanobacteria possess chlorophylls while red blood cells of vertebrates possess hemoglobin. Though they are present in different organisms, their structures are almost similar since they have a similar pyrrole ring. But they differ with the central ion. Chlorophyll has magnesium while hemoglobin has iron. Furthermore, their functions are different. Chlorophyll absorbs energy from sunlight for photosynthesis while hemoglobin transports oxygen from the lungs to the other parts of the body.
Hemoglobin and chlorophyll have similar structures. The main difference is that hemoglobin is built around iron (Fe), whereas chlorophyll is built around magnesium, (Mg). The primary function of hemoglobin is to transport oxygen from the lungs to other parts of the body. Hemoglobin is composed of four elements- carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. All four are organized around the iron. Chlorophyll is composed of the same elements, which are organized around magnesium. In sickle cell anemia, the abnormal hemoglobin (Hemoglobin-S) sticks together when it gives up its oxygen to the tissues. These clumps cause red blood cells to become stiff and shaped like a sickle. Chlorophyll helps do the job of hemoglobin when ingested. Promote the health of circulation, cleanse the body, increase the number of red blood cells and therefore increase oxygen throughout the body, in other words, Chlorophyll helps build hemoglobin. This is exactly what our sickle cell babies and others need, to build hemoglobin.
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Chlorophyll and hemoglobin are two important pigments necessary for plant life and animal life respectively. Photosynthetic organisms such as plants, algae, and cyanobacteria possess chlorophylls while red blood cells of vertebrates possess hemoglobin. Though they are present in different organisms, their structures are almost similar since they have a similar pyrrole ring. But they differ with the central ion. Chlorophyll has magnesium while hemoglobin has iron. Furthermore, their functions are different. Chlorophyll absorbs energy from sunlight for photosynthesis while hemoglobin transports oxygen from the lungs to the other parts of the body.
The main difference between chlorophyll and hemoglobin is that chlorophyll is a photosynthetic pigment . hemoglobin is an iron-containing pigment found in vertebrate red blood cells that transmits ... Chlorophyll contains a magnesium ion while hemoglobin contains an iron ion
The main difference is that hemoglobin is built around iron (Fe), where as chlorophyll is built around magnesium, (Mg). ... Hemoglobin is composed of four elements- carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. All four are organized around iron. Chlorophyll is composed of the same elements, which are organized around magnesium.
The basic structure of a chlorophyll molecule is a porphyrin ring, coordinated to a central atom. This is very similar in structure to the heme group found in hemoglobin, except that in heme the central atom is iron, whereas in chlorophyll it is magnesium. There are actually 2 main types of chlorophyll, named a and b.
Both play an important role in life, whether Hemoglobin or Chlorophille, both are essential
# Difference between chlorophyll and hemoglobin:
Hemoglobin and Chlorophyll have similar structures. The main difference is that hemoglobin is built around iron (Fe), where as chlorophyll is built around magnesium, (Mg). The primary function for hemoglobin is to transport oxygen from the lungs to other parts of the body. Hemoglobin is composed of four elements- carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. All four are organized around iron. Chlorophyll is composed of the same elements, which are organized around magnesium.
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In addition to porpyrin ring structure the chemical composition is also different
Omar Aljubouri
Dear Professor,
Thank you for the wonderful topic of discussion.
I am from the world of behavioral sciences. Ideally, I should not have involved myself with this discussion. But I wanted to prove a point. That point is that in this modern era, the same thing can be looked at from different angles.
To me, the main difference between chlorophyll and hemoglobin is in their color. Chlorophyll is green and hemoglobin is red. Chlorophyll makes me relaxed. When there is a cut and I see red blood, that excites me.
Best regards,
Anamitra.
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Hemoglobin related to human while chlorophyll related to plants
Anamitra Roy
Yes, this is what I want for your view of the subject, thank you
In the end of the introduction of your discussion yous asked this question:
"How can some customs and traditions be correct even though at the time of their spread there was no great scientific progress as is the case at the present time?"
So I prefer to focus on this part of your discussion since the difference between chlorophyll and hemoglobin has been well explained by colleagues.
The knowledge in medicine or others exist almost everywhere in the world and are the result of experiences accumulated over time and transmitted from generation to generation. In the specific case of your country, the Iraq was the cradle of several civilizations among which the Sumerian civilization (3rd millennium before Jesus Christ peace be upon him), the oldest civilization in traditional medicine and known for its healing art and Iraq is the cradle of this civilization. In the middle Age emerged the Arab-Muslim civilization which has flourished, among other things in pharmacy and medicine in general. During this period the profession of "Sayadila" or "pharmacists" saw its birth in Baghdad. So it is quite possible that this knowledge of which you speak benefits, among other things, from this brilliant period and/or from other civilizations.
Just to recall, the Arab-Muslim civilization occupied between the 8th to the 13th centuries a predominant position in the field of sciences and pharmacy as well as medicine naturally occupied a privileged place in Arab-Islamic land. The scientists of this time made evolve and prosper the pharmaceutical scientific heritage which they acquired, corrected, improved, innovated and transmitted.
Haemoglobin sustains life of homeotermic animals (which have systems to stabilize corporal temperature) and pecilthermic animals (which live with large swings in body temperature) whereas chlorophyll sustains all life on biosphere.
The customs and rituals mostly come with religious tradition . The religion is a cognitive science hence the religious tradition and customs never unscientific. All the customs and rituals becomes parts of tradition after a long experience of old peoples . The experience is our best teacher and it works like supervised learning of artificial intelligence. The science inherent in the nature we have just learnt by the cognitive process about it .
Although there is deference in Porpyrin ring structure of the two but without these two molecules life in this earth is not possible. Very important and crucial molecules of living organisms
There is a similarity in the spatial structure of both, but the only difference is the presence of the Fe atom in the hemoglobin molecule, while there is the Mg atom in the chlorophyll molecule. Glory to God, both of them are the origin of life in plants and animals.
Just to add more information about these two important and ubiquitous molecules in the living world that constitute chlorophyll and hemoglobin in addition to what colleagues have provided as information: Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for the green coloring of plants and plays a fundamental role in photosynthesis and is the key element inducing life on the surface of our earth.
Chromatography shows that in reality chlorophyll is a mixture of several pigments:
- Carotene (orange)
- Xanthophylls (yellow)
- Chlorophyll a (yellow green)
- Chlorophyll b (blue green)
Crude chlorophyll is green in color because of the magnesium ion chlorine in chlorophylls a and b, but also because of the number of conjugated double bonds of chlorophyll a and b molecules.
These double bonds are at the origin of the absorption of light at certain determined wavelengths and therefore of the particular color of each plant pigment. So, the wavelength of the light absorbed increases when the number of conjugated double bonds increases, which explains why all plants do not have the same green color.
For hemoglobin, it is a protein molecule present in red blood cells and which has the role of transporting oxygen from the lungs to the tissues of the body and carbon dioxide from the tissues to the lungs but also plays an important role in maintaining the shape of red blood cells.
Hemoglobin is a compound molecule consisting of a protein called globin attached to four molecules of a red-brown crystalline pigment called heme.
This heme molecule contains iron which is vital in the transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood. This iron is also responsible for the characteristic red color of the blood.
Please, w let us not confuse young growing scholars. Iron(Fe) is a component of vertebrate blood, while Magnesium (Mg) is a component of chlorophyll.
The molecular structure of chlorophyll was worked out by Richard Will starter, a German Scientist, in 1913. He got a Nobel Prize for the work, in which he showed that the chlorophyll molecule is a complex ring structure with a Mg atom in the center, the site where light energy for photosynthesis is trapped and used by the plant.
The molecule's long tail, which is monopolar, anchors the molecule in the lipid of the photosynthetic membrane.
On the other hand, hemoglobin (Hb), has an iron (Fe) atom at it's center. This Fe atom binds the Oxygen (O2). This is the Oxygenated blood (note: not oxidized). It is darker and purplish red.
I hope that this meets your needs. From Dr Ejeikwu Emmanuel Oloja
I find your question spectacular, because it draws the attention to the similarity between plants and animals. Congratulations sir for your remarkable question. I have learned something!
In my studies on the beginning of life on Earth (from fossils), the similarity between the primitive plants and primitive animals was amazing, especially when those two forms of life were minuscule and difficult to separate.
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