Blood

Question 0

What percent makes up how much water is in the blood?

Answer 0

91%

Question 1

What component of blood is 55% of it, liquid-based, made of N & CO2, and the color of vegetable oil?

Answer 1

Plasma

Question 2

How many quarts of blood is in males?

Answer 2

5-6 quarts

Question 3

How many quarts of blood are in females?

Answer 3

Around 5 or less

Question 4

What component of blood is made by the liver and makes of 7% of the blood?

Answer 4

Proteins

Question 5

What are globulins?

Answer 5

Antibodies

Question 6

What protein is dormant and are responsible for clotting?

Answer 6

Fibrinogen/prothrombin

Question 7

What makes up only 2% of the blood?

Answer 7

Salts and other solutes

Question 8

What are formed particles?

Answer 8

Cells that make up 45% of the blood and can be (for example) red cells, white cells, or platelets

Question 9

What Latin root means red?

Answer 9

Erythro

Question 10

What are red blood cells that are 99% of formed particles and can also be know as corpuscles?

Answer 10

Erythrocytes

Question 11

How many erythrocytes are in one mL of blood?

Answer 11

4.8-5.2 billion

Question 12

What are the characteristics of erythrocytes?

Answer 12

• Double concave shape
• Small
• Mature; kicks nucleus out

Question 13

What is the test called that determines the number of red blood cells in a unit of blood; used to located the presence of diseases?

Answer 13

Hematocrit

Question 14

What is hemoglobin?

Answer 14

A protein found on blood cells that carries O2 around the body

Question 15

What are the two parts of hemoglobin?

Answer 15

• globin- protein

* hemo- iron ion

Question 16

What does carbon monoxide do the hemoglobin?

Answer 16

It “kicks” the O2 off

Question 17

What is the function of erythrocytes?

Answer 17

To carry O2 and CO2

Question 18

What is the process of making red blood cells in the red bone marrow of the epiphysis?

Answer 18

Erythropoiesis

Question 19

What is the life span of red blood cells?

Answer 19

120 days on average

Question 20

What happens at the end of the life span for red blood cells?

Answer 20

The cell membrane thins out

Question 21

What is the process of rupturing red blood cells at the end of its life span?

Answer 21

Hemolysis

Question 22

What is the job of the spleen?

Answer 22

The red blood “graveyard”; where hemolysis takes place

Question 23

What are other proteins that are found on the surface of red blood cells; determines blood type with three major types?

Answer 23

Antigens

Question 24

What are the three main types of antigens?

Answer 24

* A * B * Rehashes

Question 25

What are leukocytes?

Answer 25

White blood cells

Question 26

How many white blood cells are found in one mL of blood?

Answer 26

5-9 thousand

Question 27

What are the two major types of leukocytes?

Answer 27

* Granular (granules in the cytoplasm) | * Non-granular

Question 28

If a person has a AB blood type, what antigens do they have?

Answer 28

A, B, and Rheses

Question 29

What type of granular leukocyte is the most common, seeks and destroys invaders, stain neutral in color, has the ability to change its nucleus, and has a short life span?

Answer 29

Neutrophil (also know as polymorphonuclear cell)

Question 30

If a person has a A- blood type, what antigens do they have?

Answer 30

A

Question 31

What granular leukocyte is rare, the line of defense for large microorganisms, orange in color, and involved in allergies?

Answer 31

Eosinophil

Question 32

If a person has a O blood type, what antigens do they have?

Answer 32

Reshes

Question 33

What is a basophil?

Answer 33

A granular leukocyte that stains dark blue, secrets heparin and histamine, and is the most rare

Question 34

What is heparin

Answer 34

An anti-cologant

Question 35

If a person has a O- blood type, what antigens do they have?

Answer 35

They don't have any

Question 36

What formed particle is the major cell of the immune system; small in size; and has a huge, round nucleus?

Answer 36

Lymphocytes

Question 37

What are B lymphocytes?

Answer 37

Lymphocytes that produce antibodies, and attack bacteria

Question 38

What are T lymphocytes?

Answer 38

Lymphocytes that attacks viral infections, and cancer cells.(HIV targets these types of cells)

Question 39

What are monocytes?

Answer 39

A non-granular leukocyte that is large i. size, the protector cell in different tissue, has a indented nucleus, and stays in the blood

Question 40

What formed particle is otherwise known as platelets, trigger blood clotting, super tiny, and are actually fragments of cells?

Answer 40

Thrombocytes

Question 41

What is a mega caraocyte?

Answer 41

A cell that is produced in bone marrow and breaks up into thrombocytes