Carbon dioxide is transported in the blood in all the following ways except
A) bicarbonate ion.
B) carbonic acid.
C) directly dissolved.
D) as a gas.
E) as carbaminohemoglobin.

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Carbon dioxide is not transported in the blood as a gas. Instead, most of it is converted to bicarbonate ion or carried by hemoglobin as carbaminohemoglobin, while a small fraction remains directly dissolved or as carbonic acid.

Carbon Dioxide Is Transported in the Blood in All the Following