Assignment task: Explain how the movement of carbon dioxide from fetal blood cells into maternal blood increases the movement of oxygen from maternal blood into fetal blood. HINT: In your answer, be sure to address and include your reasoning to the following 3 questions. For clarity sake, write up your answers in three numbered bullet points corresponding to each of the following questions.
1. What happens to the pH in fetal and maternal blood cells when carbon dioxide moves from blood cells into maternal blood?
2. Subsequently, what happens to the affinity of fetal and maternal hemoglobin for oxygen?
3. What happens to the fetal and maternal oxygen - hemoglobin curves?