What is the correct medical term for a red blood cell - Answers Erythrocyte
T or F: Blood serves as a delivery system for the body - Answers True
Blood helps regulate body temperature by absorbing heat from body cells, especially the heat producing
__________ and releases heat primarily through the blood vessels - Answers skeletal muscle
Leukocytes and plasma proteins protects the body against the potentially harmful substances which are
also part of the ______ system - Answers immune
The only formed elements that are nucleated when mature are the ______ - Answers leukocytes
As they pass through small blood vessels, erythrocytes may pack together, single-file, like a roll of coins:
this is called ___________ - Answers a rouleau (rouleaux)
Which answer(s) describe hemoglobin? Hemoglobin _________ - Answers 1. is suspended in the cytosol
of erythrocytes
2. is a protein
3. transport both oxygen and carbon dioxide
4. is a pigment
After delivering some oxygen to body cells, blood is no longer saturated with oxygen and is said to be
________ - Answers deoxygenated
A hemoglobin molecule consists of two polypeptides called ___________ globin and two polypeptides
called ________ globin - Answers alpha and beta
When transported by hemoglobin, oxygen binds weakly with the _____ - Answers iron ion of each heme
group
An average of about ______ of erythrocytes are removed from circulation per day. - Answers 1%
Old/damaged erythrocytes are removed from circulation as they pass through - Answers the liver and
spleen
T or F: Globin protein cannot be broken down and formed into erythrocytes - Answers False (They can)
When an erythrocyte is removed from circulation, the iron ion of hemoglobin - Answers is transported
by transferrin to liver or bone marrow
A blood sample containing erythrocytes with only surface antigen A on the plasma membrane is ABO
blood type ___ - Answers A