SOC 16 - Structure of the Blood Vessels

Question 1

What is the immune system?

Answer 1

The structures and processes in your body that stop disease

Question 2

What is the Theombokinase?

Answer 2

Substance involved in blood clotting

Question 3

What is Serotonin?

Answer 3

Hormone that triggers the clotting process

Question 4

What is Plasma?

Answer 4

The fluid part of blood

Question 5

What is an Erythrocyte?

Answer 5

Red blood cell

Question 6

What is Haemoglobin?

Answer 6

A red protein in the blood that transports oxygen

Question 7

What is Anaemia?

Answer 7

A condition where there is a lack of red cells or haemoglobin in the blood

Question 8

What is a Leukocyte?

Answer 8

White blood cell

Question 9

What is a Pathogen?

Answer 9

An agent that causes disease, such as a virus

Question 10

What is an Antibody?

Answer 10

Chemical that destroys a pathogen

Question 11

What is blood pressure?

Answer 11

A measure of the force that your heart uses to pump the blood around

Question 12

What is the importance of white blood cells?

Question 13

What is the importance of platelets?

Question 14

What is the importance of Plasma?