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Functions of Blood - correct answer ✔✔regulation of homeostasis, transport, protection, and
homeostasis
What is blood? - correct answer ✔✔A liquid connective tissue that flows throughout the body
Components of blood - correct answer ✔✔plasma, buffy coat, erythrocytes
Plasma - correct answer ✔✔an aqueous solution with electrolytes, nutrients, gases, waste
products
Hemopoiesis - correct answer ✔✔process of blood cell production
Hemopoietic stem cells - correct answer ✔✔Cells found in the bone marrow that produce the
cellular components (ie, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets) of blood.
Erythropoiesis - correct answer ✔✔RBC production
Natural killer cells - correct answer ✔✔interrogate cell health and can directly phagocytize and
destroy bacteria or virally infected cells and cancer cells
T-Cells - correct answer ✔✔recognizes "foreign" proteins
B-Cells - correct answer ✔✔prompted by T cells to produce antibodies