Test Bank for Anatomy and Physiology: The Unity of Form and
Function, 10th Edition by Saladin 9781265328627 , All
Chapters with Answers and Rationals .
Components of blood, the liquid portion is known as the _________. - ANSWER: Plasma
Components of blood, the solid portion used to be called __________ Cells. - ANSWER: Blood Cells
_________ is a soluble precursor of fibrin. - ANSWER: Fibrinogen
__________ forms the framework of a blood clot. - ANSWER: Fibrinogen
Plasma - Fibrinogen - blood clot proteins = - ANSWER: Serum
Does not have clotting proteins is known as _________. - ANSWER: Serum
__________ system is to transport substances from place to place in the body - ANSWER: Circulatory
system
The __________ system consists of the heart, blood vessels, and blood. - ANSWER: circulatory system
The term __________ system refers only to the heart and vessels. - ANSWER: cardiovascular system
The study of the blood specifically is called ___________. - ANSWER: hematology
The functions of the ________ system are transport, protection, and regulation. - ANSWER:
Circulatory System
What Function Type: The blood carries oxygen from the lungs to all tissues and removes carbon
dioxide, which is carried to the lungs for elimination? - ANSWER: Transport
What function Type: The blood takes nutrients from the digestive tract and delivers them to the
tissues? - ANSWER: Transport
What function Type: carries metabolic wastes to the kidneys for removal? - ANSWER: Transport
What function Type: carries hormones from endocrine cells to their target organs? - ANSWER:
Transport
What function Type: The blood transports a variety of stem cells from bone marrow and other organs
to tissues where they lodge and mature? - ANSWER: Transport
What function type: The blood plays roles in inflammation, a mechanism to limit infection? - ANSWER:
Protection
What function type: White blood cells destroy microorganisms and cancer cells? - ANSWER:
Protection
What function type: Antibodies and blood proteins neutralize toxins and help destroy pathogens? -
ANSWER: Protection
What function type: Platelets secrete factors that initiate blood clotting and other processes for
minimizing blood loss? - ANSWER: Protection
,What function type: Blood capillaries help stabilize fluid distribution by absorbing or releasing fluid? -
ANSWER: Regulation
What function type: Blood proteins buffer acids and bases to help stabilize pH? - ANSWER: Regulation
What function type: Shifts in blood flow help to regulate body temperature by routing blood to the
skin for heat loss or retaining it deeper to conserve heat? - ANSWER: Regulation
A substance that is characterized as a liquid connective tissue consisting of cells and an extracellular
matrix? - ANSWER: Blood
adults generally have __ to __ liters of blood. - ANSWER: 4 to 6
The matrix is the_____________ _________, a clear, light yellow fluid making up a little more than
half of the blood volume. - ANSWER: blood plasma
Suspended in the plasma are the ____________ ___________; cells and cell fragments including red
blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. - ANSWER: formed elements
___________ are not all cells; __________ are merely fragments. - ANSWER: platelets
What are the formed elements? - ANSWER: Erythrocytes (red blood cells, RBCs), Platelets, leukocytes
(white blood cells, WBCs), in the plasma.
What are the three kinds of granulocytes? - ANSWER: neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils.
What type of blood cell has granulocytes and granulocytes? - ANSWER: Leukocytes
What are the Two kinds of agranulocytes? - ANSWER: lymphocytes and monocyte
What blood cell is the most numerous formed element? - ANSWER: Erythrocytes
What blood cell does not have a nucleus? - ANSWER: Erythrocytes
Blood _________ is a complex mixture of water, proteins, nutrients, electrolytes, nitrogenous wastes,
hormone, and dissolved gases. - ANSWER: plasma
What matrix substance is the most abundant solute by weight? - ANSWER: Protein
What matrix substance plays a variety of roles, including clotting, defense, and transport of certain
solutes? - ANSWER: Protein
Why are pregnant Rh- women given an injection of Rh immune Globin? - ANSWER: Antibodies in the
injection bind fetal RBC antigens so they cannot stimulate her immune system to produce anti-D
antibodies.
Place the stages in development of white blood cells in order from first to last:
colony-forming units,
mature cells,
precursor cells,
hemopoietic stem cell, - ANSWER: 1. Hemopoietic Stem cell
2. Colony-forming units
3. Precursor Cells
4. Mature cells
the three major categories of ______ proteins are albumins, globulins, and fibrinogen. - ANSWER:
Plasma proteins
, _________is the smallest and most abundant plasma protein. - ANSWER: Albumin
What plasma protein serves to transport solutes and to buffer the pH, and it contributes to viscosity
and osmolarity? - ANSWER: Albumin
What are the three subclasses of Globulins? - ANSWER: alpha (α), beta (β), and gamma (γ) globulins
From smallest to large name the 3 globulin plasma proteins. - ANSWER: alpha (α), beta (β), and
gamma (γ) globulins
What Plasma proteins functions that have roles in solute transport, clotting, and immunity? -
ANSWER: Globulins; alpha (α), beta (β), and gamma (γ) globulins
What plasma protein is a soluble precursor of fibrin? - ANSWER: Fibrinogen
What plasma protein forms the framework of a blood clot? - ANSWER: Fibrinogen
Out of the three subclasses of globulins which one comes from plasma cells? - ANSWER: Gamma
globulins
Out of the three subclasses of globulins which one has connective tissue cells that are descended
from B lymphocytes? - ANSWER: Gamma globulins
What blood plasma element has toxic end products of catabolism? - ANSWER: Nitrogenous wastes
What blood plasma element is the most abundant is urea; a product of amino acid catabolism? -
ANSWER: Nitrogenous wastes
What blood plasma element normally excretes these wastes at a rate that balances their production
from the kidneys? - ANSWER: Nitrogenous wastes
What blood plasma element takes from the digestive tract include glucose, amino acids, fats,
cholesterol, phospholipids, vitamins, and minerals? - ANSWER: Nutrients
What blood plasma element has "chemicals or gasses" that include oxygen, carbon dioxide, and
nitrogen? - ANSWER: Dissolved Gases
What blood plasma element are an important component of plasma, with sodium ions constituting
about 90% of cations? - ANSWER: Electrolytes
What blood plasma element contains Sodium which is critically important for osmolarity and can
influence blood pressure? - ANSWER: Electrolytes
What blood plasma element regulates the body by electrolyte concentrations to keep them stable in
the plasma? - ANSWER: Electrolytes
What are the 2 important properties of the blood that arise from the formed elements and plasma
composition? - ANSWER: Viscosity and osmolarity
What property of the blood is the resistance of a fluid to flow, resulting from the cohesion of its
particles? - ANSWER: Viscosity
What property of the blood is related to the thickness or stickiness of a fluid? - ANSWER: Viscosity
What property of the blood contains Whole blood of 4.5 to 5.5 times as viscous as water, mainly
because of RBCs, and plasma is 2.0 times as viscous, mainly due to protein? - ANSWER: Viscosity
Function, 10th Edition by Saladin 9781265328627 , All
Chapters with Answers and Rationals .
Components of blood, the liquid portion is known as the _________. - ANSWER: Plasma
Components of blood, the solid portion used to be called __________ Cells. - ANSWER: Blood Cells
_________ is a soluble precursor of fibrin. - ANSWER: Fibrinogen
__________ forms the framework of a blood clot. - ANSWER: Fibrinogen
Plasma - Fibrinogen - blood clot proteins = - ANSWER: Serum
Does not have clotting proteins is known as _________. - ANSWER: Serum
__________ system is to transport substances from place to place in the body - ANSWER: Circulatory
system
The __________ system consists of the heart, blood vessels, and blood. - ANSWER: circulatory system
The term __________ system refers only to the heart and vessels. - ANSWER: cardiovascular system
The study of the blood specifically is called ___________. - ANSWER: hematology
The functions of the ________ system are transport, protection, and regulation. - ANSWER:
Circulatory System
What Function Type: The blood carries oxygen from the lungs to all tissues and removes carbon
dioxide, which is carried to the lungs for elimination? - ANSWER: Transport
What function Type: The blood takes nutrients from the digestive tract and delivers them to the
tissues? - ANSWER: Transport
What function Type: carries metabolic wastes to the kidneys for removal? - ANSWER: Transport
What function Type: carries hormones from endocrine cells to their target organs? - ANSWER:
Transport
What function Type: The blood transports a variety of stem cells from bone marrow and other organs
to tissues where they lodge and mature? - ANSWER: Transport
What function type: The blood plays roles in inflammation, a mechanism to limit infection? - ANSWER:
Protection
What function type: White blood cells destroy microorganisms and cancer cells? - ANSWER:
Protection
What function type: Antibodies and blood proteins neutralize toxins and help destroy pathogens? -
ANSWER: Protection
What function type: Platelets secrete factors that initiate blood clotting and other processes for
minimizing blood loss? - ANSWER: Protection
,What function type: Blood capillaries help stabilize fluid distribution by absorbing or releasing fluid? -
ANSWER: Regulation
What function type: Blood proteins buffer acids and bases to help stabilize pH? - ANSWER: Regulation
What function type: Shifts in blood flow help to regulate body temperature by routing blood to the
skin for heat loss or retaining it deeper to conserve heat? - ANSWER: Regulation
A substance that is characterized as a liquid connective tissue consisting of cells and an extracellular
matrix? - ANSWER: Blood
adults generally have __ to __ liters of blood. - ANSWER: 4 to 6
The matrix is the_____________ _________, a clear, light yellow fluid making up a little more than
half of the blood volume. - ANSWER: blood plasma
Suspended in the plasma are the ____________ ___________; cells and cell fragments including red
blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. - ANSWER: formed elements
___________ are not all cells; __________ are merely fragments. - ANSWER: platelets
What are the formed elements? - ANSWER: Erythrocytes (red blood cells, RBCs), Platelets, leukocytes
(white blood cells, WBCs), in the plasma.
What are the three kinds of granulocytes? - ANSWER: neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils.
What type of blood cell has granulocytes and granulocytes? - ANSWER: Leukocytes
What are the Two kinds of agranulocytes? - ANSWER: lymphocytes and monocyte
What blood cell is the most numerous formed element? - ANSWER: Erythrocytes
What blood cell does not have a nucleus? - ANSWER: Erythrocytes
Blood _________ is a complex mixture of water, proteins, nutrients, electrolytes, nitrogenous wastes,
hormone, and dissolved gases. - ANSWER: plasma
What matrix substance is the most abundant solute by weight? - ANSWER: Protein
What matrix substance plays a variety of roles, including clotting, defense, and transport of certain
solutes? - ANSWER: Protein
Why are pregnant Rh- women given an injection of Rh immune Globin? - ANSWER: Antibodies in the
injection bind fetal RBC antigens so they cannot stimulate her immune system to produce anti-D
antibodies.
Place the stages in development of white blood cells in order from first to last:
colony-forming units,
mature cells,
precursor cells,
hemopoietic stem cell, - ANSWER: 1. Hemopoietic Stem cell
2. Colony-forming units
3. Precursor Cells
4. Mature cells
the three major categories of ______ proteins are albumins, globulins, and fibrinogen. - ANSWER:
Plasma proteins
, _________is the smallest and most abundant plasma protein. - ANSWER: Albumin
What plasma protein serves to transport solutes and to buffer the pH, and it contributes to viscosity
and osmolarity? - ANSWER: Albumin
What are the three subclasses of Globulins? - ANSWER: alpha (α), beta (β), and gamma (γ) globulins
From smallest to large name the 3 globulin plasma proteins. - ANSWER: alpha (α), beta (β), and
gamma (γ) globulins
What Plasma proteins functions that have roles in solute transport, clotting, and immunity? -
ANSWER: Globulins; alpha (α), beta (β), and gamma (γ) globulins
What plasma protein is a soluble precursor of fibrin? - ANSWER: Fibrinogen
What plasma protein forms the framework of a blood clot? - ANSWER: Fibrinogen
Out of the three subclasses of globulins which one comes from plasma cells? - ANSWER: Gamma
globulins
Out of the three subclasses of globulins which one has connective tissue cells that are descended
from B lymphocytes? - ANSWER: Gamma globulins
What blood plasma element has toxic end products of catabolism? - ANSWER: Nitrogenous wastes
What blood plasma element is the most abundant is urea; a product of amino acid catabolism? -
ANSWER: Nitrogenous wastes
What blood plasma element normally excretes these wastes at a rate that balances their production
from the kidneys? - ANSWER: Nitrogenous wastes
What blood plasma element takes from the digestive tract include glucose, amino acids, fats,
cholesterol, phospholipids, vitamins, and minerals? - ANSWER: Nutrients
What blood plasma element has "chemicals or gasses" that include oxygen, carbon dioxide, and
nitrogen? - ANSWER: Dissolved Gases
What blood plasma element are an important component of plasma, with sodium ions constituting
about 90% of cations? - ANSWER: Electrolytes
What blood plasma element contains Sodium which is critically important for osmolarity and can
influence blood pressure? - ANSWER: Electrolytes
What blood plasma element regulates the body by electrolyte concentrations to keep them stable in
the plasma? - ANSWER: Electrolytes
What are the 2 important properties of the blood that arise from the formed elements and plasma
composition? - ANSWER: Viscosity and osmolarity
What property of the blood is the resistance of a fluid to flow, resulting from the cohesion of its
particles? - ANSWER: Viscosity
What property of the blood is related to the thickness or stickiness of a fluid? - ANSWER: Viscosity
What property of the blood contains Whole blood of 4.5 to 5.5 times as viscous as water, mainly
because of RBCs, and plasma is 2.0 times as viscous, mainly due to protein? - ANSWER: Viscosity
