Question

How the body makes long-term adjustments when living in high altitude.

Answer 1

• When a person travels from sea level to elevations where the atmospheric pressure and partial pressure of O₂ lowered there is a poor binding of O₂ with haemoglobin leads to acute mountain sickness.
• When the person lives there for a long time the kidney synthesizes the erythropoietin which stimulates the bone marrow to produce more RBCs.