Red Blood Cells Flashcards
1
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erythrocyte
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red blood cell
2
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adaptation: small +biconcave disc
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- large SA:V
- oxygen can diffuse efficiently
3
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adaptation: flexibility
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- well developed cytoskeleton
- can twist and turn and travel through very narrow capillaries
4
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adaptation: no organelles
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- lose organelles at differentiation
- no nucleus, mitochondria, ERk little cytopplasm
- maximises space for haemoglobin