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What type of tissue is blood? What are its major components? - Answer Blood is a connective
tissue made up of buffy coat, erythrocytes, and plasma
What is hematocrit? - Answer The percentage of blood volume in RBC
What are some major differences between red blood cells and white blood cells? - Answer
WBCs are complete cells and RBCs have no nuclei or organelles
What are the 3 major functions of blood? - Answer transportation, regulation, protection
What is the composition of plasma (what are some of its components)? - Answer Water,
albumin, fibrinogen, globulins, nutrients, respiratory gases, hormones
What are the formed elements of blood? - Answer erythrocytes, leukocytes, platelets
What is the function of red blood cells? - Answer transport oxygen and carbon dioxide
What are the components of hemoglobin? - Answer heme and globin (iron & protein)
What is hematopoiesis and where does it occur? - Answer blood cell formation; occurs in red
bone marrow
What is erythropoietin & where/why is it produced? - Answer A hormone that stimulates the
formation of RBCs. It is produced in the kidney in response to hypoxia
How are old red blood cells removed from the body? - Answer
What are some causes of anemias? - Answer Blood loss, not enough RBCs produced, too many
RBCs destroyed
, Approximately what percent of total blood volume is occupied by white blood cells? - Answer
1%
What is diapedesis? - Answer movement of WBCs out of the bloodstream into surrounding
tissues.
Chemotaxis - Answer Cell movement that occurs in response to chemical stimulus
MWhat is leukocytosis? Can this be a normal condition? - Answer WBC count over 11,000. It
can be normal in response to infection
Which leukocytes are most abundant in blood? (Remember: Never let monkeys eat
bananas!) - Answer Neutrophil
Which of the leukocytes are granulocytes? - Answer neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils
Which of the leukocytes are agranulocytes? - Answer lymphocytes and monocytes
What is another name for neutrophils (helps to identify them in blood)? - Answer
polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNS or Polys)
Which of the leukocytes have phagocytic activities? - Answer Neutrophils
Which leukocyte is a precursor of a
phagocytic cell? - Answer Monocytes
Which of the leukocytes are involved in inflammatory responses? - Answer Basophils
Which of the leukocytes are involved in antibody production - Answer Lymphocytes
Which leukocytes arise from myeloid stem cells? - Answer Eosinophils, basophils, neutrophils,
and monocytes