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1. Blood: A liquid connective tissue consisting of cells surrounded by a liquid matrix (plasma)
2. How much blood plasma appears in centrifuged blood?: 55%
3. What is the buffy white coat?: White blood cells and platelets
4. How much of red blood cells are in blood?: 45%
5. Albumin: Hangs out with nutrients and water, 54%
6. Globulin: Used to make antibodies called immunoglobulins, used for protection, 38%
7. Fibrinogen: Plasma protein that is converted to fibrin in the clotting process, 7%
8. Immunoglobin: protein with antibody activity
9. Formed elements: red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets. Has a membrane
10. Clot: Active form of a platelet
11. Proteins: Moves fatty substances
12. Electrolytes: maintains balance, muscles
13. Nutrients: Goes in your body through blood
14. Gases: O2 in, CO2 out, nitrogen circulating
15. Regulatory substances: Steroid hormones and waste products
16. Waste products: Hormones we longer want that has been stabilized
17. neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, basophils: Solutes that all have
a nucleas
18. What is this?: White blood cell
19. What is this a picture of?: Platelet
20. What is the picture pointing to?: Red Blood Cell
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21. Blood regulates ________ of all body fluids, pH, body temperature, and water
content of cells: homeostasis
22. Blood transports...: oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients, wastes, and hormones
23. Blood protects against excessive volume loss by: clotting
24. Blood protects by using _________ to protect against infections: White Blood Cells
25. Hypothalamus helps regulate ______: fluids and measures your blood
26. When you are cold and your blood becomes constricted: Basoconstriction
27. Fibrinogen and Platelets: Clotting factors, makes a scab
28. Globulins, neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils and basophils-
: Protects against bacteria
29. Water, albumin, globulins and red blood cells: Transports nutrients, oxygen and waste
products
30. When you donate plasma they are looking for ______: proteins
31. hematopoiesis (hemopoiesis): Creation and development of all blood cells
32. Stem cells differentiate into each of the different types of blood cells: Pluripotent
33. are able to live for years while most other blood cells live for hours, days, or
weeks: lymphocytes
34. Erythropoiesis: production of red blood cells that begins in the red bone marrow
35. erthythropoietin: a hormone released by the kidneys in response to hypoxia
36. Hypoxia: Lowered oxygen concentration
37. Reticulocyte: immature erythrocyte
38. Ditches their nucleus when mature because a _____ does not have a nucle-
us: Erythrocyte
39. What in your body destroys RBCs every 120 days?: Liver and spleen
40. Used to carry oxygen to all cells and carries CO2 to the lungs: Hemoglobin
41. Each hemoglobin contains ____ iron ions: 4
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