Blood physiology exam with answers

Blood physiology exam with answers

What are the three components of the cardiovascular system? - ....🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Heart-pumps blood
Blood Vessels- transports blood
Blood- vehicle for transport


General functions of blood - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔1. Transport
-O2 and nutrients to tissues
-CO2 and other metabolic waste from tissues
2. Regulation
-body temp
-pH of body fluids
3 Protection
-Internal: repair breaks in blood vessels
-External: protects against infections


blood structure - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Connective tissue
Matrix: Plasma
Cells: red and white


What is the anatomy of blood - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Formed
elements and cells and cell-like structures

, anatomy of erythrocytes - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Red blood cells
(RBCs)
No nucleus when mature


What's the role of erythrocytes and how does it do this? - ....🔰VERIFIED
ANSWERS.... ✔✔Transport O2
Contains Hemoglobin (protein)
-Heme (a component of hemoglobin) contains iron
-Iron binds with O2 and gives red color


Anatomy of leukocytes - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔White blood cells
(WBCs)
Ratio of 1:700.....WBC:RBC
Has a nucleus but no hemoglobin


function of leukocytes - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔External protection


What are the two categories of WBCs - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔granular and agranular


granular leukocytes - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔-eosinophil
-basophils
-neutrophils