Bio 253 Final Exam – Accurate Solutions For
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Functions to carry oxygen from the lungs to the tissues throughout the
body
Choose an answer
What are the major components of Distinguish between granulocytes
1 2
blood? and agranulocytes.
What is the function of List the major buffer systems of the
3 4
hemoglobin? body.
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Terms in this set (174)
What are the major Plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and
components of blood? platelets
, Biconcave disc shape, 1/3 hemoglobin, lack nuclei
Describe a red blood
and mitochondria, cannot divide, produce ATP
cell.
through glycolysis
What is the function of Functions to carry oxygen from the lungs to the
hemoglobin? tissues throughout the body
What metabolic pathway the glycolysis pathway specifically the Embden-
do erythrocytes use to Meyerhof pathway
produce ATP?
Where are red blood in the bone marrow
cells produced?
All blood cells develop from stem cells
How do blood cells
(undifferentiated cells) in the bone marrow; a
form?
process called hematopoiesis.
How is red blood cell A negative feedback mechanism using the hormone
production controlled? erythropoietin. (prolonged oxygen deficiency)
Why is iron required for iron is the key component of hemoglobin
the formation of red
blood cells?
Which vitamins are Iron, vitamin b12 and folic acid
necessary for red blood
cell production?
a condition in which O2 carrying capacity of the
What is anemia? blood is reduced due to a deficiency of RBCs or
hemoglobin
What happens to they are removed from the body through hemolysis
damaged red blood where the iron and other components are recycled
cells? or broken down
What are the products of amino acids, iron, and biliverdin to bilirubin
hemoglobin breakdown?
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Practice questions for this set
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Functions to carry oxygen from the lungs to the tissues throughout the
body
Choose an answer
What are the major components of Distinguish between granulocytes
1 2
blood? and agranulocytes.
What is the function of List the major buffer systems of the
3 4
hemoglobin? body.
Don't know?
Terms in this set (174)
What are the major Plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and
components of blood? platelets
, Biconcave disc shape, 1/3 hemoglobin, lack nuclei
Describe a red blood
and mitochondria, cannot divide, produce ATP
cell.
through glycolysis
What is the function of Functions to carry oxygen from the lungs to the
hemoglobin? tissues throughout the body
What metabolic pathway the glycolysis pathway specifically the Embden-
do erythrocytes use to Meyerhof pathway
produce ATP?
Where are red blood in the bone marrow
cells produced?
All blood cells develop from stem cells
How do blood cells
(undifferentiated cells) in the bone marrow; a
form?
process called hematopoiesis.
How is red blood cell A negative feedback mechanism using the hormone
production controlled? erythropoietin. (prolonged oxygen deficiency)
Why is iron required for iron is the key component of hemoglobin
the formation of red
blood cells?
Which vitamins are Iron, vitamin b12 and folic acid
necessary for red blood
cell production?
a condition in which O2 carrying capacity of the
What is anemia? blood is reduced due to a deficiency of RBCs or
hemoglobin
What happens to they are removed from the body through hemolysis
damaged red blood where the iron and other components are recycled
cells? or broken down
What are the products of amino acids, iron, and biliverdin to bilirubin
hemoglobin breakdown?
