And what that means is it does not bind oxygen cooperatively. And we'll see exactly what that means in just a moment. So what is the physiological consequence of this property of myoglobin? Well, these properties of myoglobin as described here, makes it a perfect molecule to store the oxygen inside our cells. In fact, myoglobin, and that's why it's called mayo. Myo means myocide, or muscle cell myoglobin, is used to store oxygen inside our muscle cells.