A&P Exam 2 Jersey College Practice
Questions and Answers
Plasma - Answer✔️✔️-Contains digested food, metabolic waste
products, and proteins
5,000,000 - Answer✔️✔️-Approximately the number of red blood cells
in a cubic millimeter of blood
7,500 - Answer✔️✔️-Approximately the number of white blood cells
in a cubic millimeter of blood
red blood cells - Answer✔️✔️-Have no nucleus
The blood component with the highest density - Answer✔️✔️-Red
blood cells
White blood cells that helps protect the body from parasites -
Answer✔️✔️-Eosinophils
What must be present in order to form thrombin - Answer✔️✔️-
Calcium
In the final step in the blood-clotting process - Answer✔️✔️-Thrombin
reacts with fibrinogen to form fibrin
The blood type that has antigen A on the cell and anti-B antibody in
the plasma - Answer✔️✔️-Type A
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The blood type with no antigens on the blood cell and both Anti-A
and Anti-B antibodies in the plasma - Answer✔️✔️-Type O
The universal recipient blood type - Answer✔️✔️-Type AB
Another term for white blood cells - Answer✔️✔️-leukocytes
Another term for platelets - Answer✔️✔️-thrombocytes
Where is the heart located? - Answer✔️✔️-Mostly to the left of the
midline of the sternum
What are the upper chambers of the heart called? - Answer✔️✔️-atria
(atrium) the receiving chambers
The innermost layer of the heart - Answer✔️✔️-endocardium
Heart valves on right side of the heart - Answer✔️✔️-Tricuspid and
pulmonary semilunar valves
What is the first heart sound? - Answer✔️✔️-closing of AV valves
What does the superior vena cava carry? - Answer✔️✔️-Oxygen poor
blood to the right atrium
When the left ventricle contracts, it pushes blood through a valve to
the - Answer✔️✔️-aorta
How is the heart supplied with blood? - Answer✔️✔️-Arteries that
branch directly from the aorta
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