[As the red blood cells disintegrate, the hemoglobin is degraded or broken into globin, the protein part, iron (conserved for latter use), and heme. The heme initially breaks apart into biliverdin, a green pigment which is rapidly reduced to bilirubin, an orange-yellow pigment.]
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