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| Transportation system, Heat Regulation, Immunity, Storage Site |
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| State 4 general functions of blood. |
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| glucose (sugar), amino acids, fatty acids, nucleic acids, salts, vitamins, hormones, oxygen, water |
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| State 4 "good" things blood carries to cells. |
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| ammonia, CO2, urea, H+, toxins, lactic acid |
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| State 3 bad things blood takes away from cells. |
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| Plasma, WBC's and platelets, and RBC's |
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| Blood splits into 3 layers when centrifuged. What are they? |
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| How much blood does the average person have? |
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| Tissue demand. If a tissue is active and using lots of nutrients, the blood will be directed to it. |
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| What determines where blood is delivered in the body? |
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| proteins, minerals, ions, nutrients (sugar, amino acids,. . ), hormones, vitamins, wastes |
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| What types of things would be found in plasma? |
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| A protein that is stored in the blood that causes blood to clot. |
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| Proteins stored in blood that are antibodies to fight infection. |
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Biconcave disk-
It allows them to be more flexible through tiny capillaries and it increases the surface area for holding gases. |
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| What shape do blood cells have and why do they have that shape? |
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| What is the pigment molecule in RBC's that binds the O2 and CO2? |
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| What nutrients from our diet are necessary to build healthy RBC's? |
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| What are RBC's missing that other cells have? |
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| How many RBC's are in the body? |
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| What two organs monitor blood O2 levels? |
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| What is the hormone that targets red bone marrow to make blood cells? |
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| Where is erythropoietin produced? |
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| What two organs monitor the health of the RBC's and destroy them when they're old? |
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| All of them b/c they all originate from the same stem cell in the bone marrow. |
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| If stems cells in the bone marrow were damaged from radiation, which blood component would not be made correctly? |
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| What do we call disorders/ diseases caused by defective RBC's? |
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| They don't have a nucleus? |
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| Why can't RBC's do mitosis or cell division when they get old or damaged? |
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| Macrophages in the spleen and liver |
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| What cells phagocytize (eat) the RBC's ? |
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| The decomposed products are recycled mostly. We reuse the heme and iron to build new RBC's |
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| What happens to the phagocytized RBC's? |
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| hematopoiesis or erythropoiesis |
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| What do we call the formation of blood? |
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| What is the name of a RBC? |
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Oxygenated Hemoglobin is bound to many O2 molecules and it appears scarlet red.
Deoxygenated HB is missing O2 and looks maroonish. |
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| How is oxygenated hemoglobin different from deoxygenated hemoglobin? |
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| What disease is genetic and causes people's blood to be crescent moon shaped? |
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| liver, spleen and yolk sac |
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| Where is blood made in a fetus? |
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| They are torn as they pass through the tiny capillaries. |
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