Blood cells and what not!

Question 1

What are red blood cells?

Answer 1

Appear red in color because they contain hemoglobin, an iron containing pigment.

Question 2

What is the job of the spleen?

Answer 2

Removes worn-out red blood cells from circulation after 120 days. Much of the red blood cells such as the iron can be reused.

Question 3

What is hemoglobin?

Answer 3

Part of red blood cells that picks up oxygen from lungs and deliver it to tissues of the body.

Question 4

There are how many erythrocytes per cubic millimeter of blood?

Answer 4

5 million.

Question 5

How many erythrocytes are in an average size adult?

Answer 5

35 trillion. Males have more than girls.

Question 6

What are erythrocytes?

Answer 6

Red blood cells. Biconcave discs that are enucleated meaning they no longer have a nucleus. Life span of 120 days.

Question 7

What is albumins job?

Answer 7

Transports fatty substances that can dissolve in watery plasma.

Question 8

What is bilirubin?

Answer 8

Portion of red blood cells that is a waste product dispose by liver.

Question 9

How many liters does an average adult have a blood?

Answer 9

5 liters of blood that circulates through the body within the blood vessels of the cardiovascular system.

Question 10

What is blood?

Answer 10

What is a mixture of cell floating and watery plasma

Question 11

What is plasma?

Answer 11

Liquid part of the blood. Consist of hormones, salt, nutrients, waste.

Question 12

What are formed elements?

Answer 12

Erythrocyte leukocyte platelets

Question 13

What is hematopoiesis?

Answer 13

Blood formation. Process in which blood cells are produced in the red bone marrow.

Question 14

What are plasma and erythrocytes responsible for?

Answer 14

Responsible for transporting substances.

Question 15

What are leukocytes responsible for?

Answer 15

Protecting body from invading microorganisms.

Question 16

What are platelets responsible for?

Answer 16

Controlling bleeding.

Question 17

What is liquid plasma composed of

Answer 17

55% of whole blood in the average adult, and is 90 90 to 92% water, the remaining eight to 10% portion of plasma is dissolved substances, especially plasma proteins like albumin, globulin, and fibrinogen.

Question 18

What are globular?

Answer 18

Three main types, most commonly known gamma globulin -acts as antibody.

Question 19

What is fibrinogen?

Answer 19

Blood clotting protein.

Question 20

Dissolves in plasma for transport

Answer 20

Calcium, potassium, sodium, glucose, amino acids, fats, waste products like urea and creatine

Question 21

What are leukocytes?

Answer 21

Also known as white blood cells. Provides protection against invasion of pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, other foreign material. Spherical shape with a large nucleus about 8000 per cubic millimeter of blood

Question 22

How many types of white blood cells are there

Answer 22

There are five types each with its own strategy for protecting the body period can be subdivided into two categories. Granulocytes and agranulocytes.

Question 23

What are granulocytes?

Answer 23

With Granules in cytoplasm

Question 24

What are agranulocytes?

Answer 24

Without granules in cytoplasm.

Question 25

Granulocytes

Answer 25

Basophils, eosinophils, neutrophils

Question 26

What are basophils functions?

Answer 26

Release histamine and heparin to damaged tissues.

Question 27

What of the functions of eosinophils?

Answer 27

Destroys parasites and increase during allergic reactions.

Question 28

What is the function of a neutorphil?

Answer 28

Engulfs foreign material and damaged cells. (Phagocytosis. ) most numerous of leukocytes

Question 29

Agranulocytes

Answer 29

Monocytes and lymphocytes

Question 30

What are the functions of a monocyte?

Answer 30

Engulfs foreign material and damged cells (phagocytosis)

Question 31

What are the functions of lymphocytes?

Answer 31

Plays several different roles in immune response.

Question 32

Platelets

Answer 32

Also known as thrombocytes. Smallest of all the forms blood elements. Not Not whcells, formed when cytoplasm of a large precursor shatters into small plate like fragments. Between 200,000 to 300,000 per cubic millimeters in

Question 33

What is prothrombin?

Answer 33

Clottingg protein in blood

Question 34

What do platelets do?

Answer 34

Play critical part in blood clotting process, hemostasis. They clump together into small clusters when a blood vessel is damaged.

Question 35

what does a platelet do?

Answer 35

Releases a substance called thromboplastin, which in the presence of calcium reacts with prothrombin to form a rhombus, thrombin works to convert fibrinogen to fibrin which eventually becomes the mesh like blood clots

Question 36

Blood typing

Answer 36

Everyone's blood is different due to the presence of antigens and markers on the surface of erythrocytes. Before a person receives a blood transfusion it is important to do blood typing.

Question 37

What is blood typing?

Answer 37

Lab tests to determine if donated blood is compatible with the recipient's blood.

Question 38

although there are many subgroups of a blood markers, the two most important are?

Answer 38

Abo system and Rh factor

Question 39

Type A & B abo system

Answer 39

Two possible red blood cell markers, & B. A - marker in which cells identify themselves.

Question 40

A person with a markers is said to have what type of blood?

Answer 40

Type a blood

Question 41

Type A produces antib bodies so that

Answer 41

It will attack type B blood