BIO 139 KCTCS CERTIFICATION EVALUATION TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS VERIFIED COMPLETE

BIO 139 KCTCS CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS VERIFIED COMPLETE

●● What do RBCs Transport?
Answer: Gases (Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide)
Nutrients/Waste
Hormone


●● What do RBCs Regulate?
Answer: Body Temp
Body pH
Fluid Balance


●● What do RBCs Protect against?
Answer: Bleeding/Trauma
Infection/Invasion


●● Describe separated blood
Answer:

,●● Hematocrit
Answer: the ratio of the volume of red blood cells to the total volume of
blood


●● Normal hematocrit value
Answer: 42% - 47%


●● Normal pH of Blood
Answer: 7.35-7.45


●● Adult blood volume
Answer: 5 liters


●● Why does the color of blood vary
Answer: Oxygen Saturation


●● What component of blood contributes the most to blood viscosity
Answer: Erythrocytes (RBC)


●● The diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane is
called
Answer: Osmosis

, ●● Plasma
Answer: 55% of blood


●● What % of plasma is water?
Answer: 92%


●● What % of plasma is protein?
Answer: 7%


●● What % of plasma is other solutes?
Answer: 1%


●● proteins in plasma
Answer: albumins 58%
globulins 37%
fibrinogen 4%
regulatory proteins <1%


●● solutes in blood plasma
Answer: -waste (urea & ammonia)
-electrolytes (salts dissolved in solution)
-organic nutrients (lipids, glucose, amino acids)