BIOS 255 Midterm Exam

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BIOS 255 Midterm Exam

  • What are the formed elements of blood?
  • –Answer red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets

  • centrifuged blood
  • –Answer 55% Plasma, Buffy Coat, 45% RBC

  • what makes up the buffy coat
  • –Answer white blood cells and platelets

  • Hemoglobin
  • –Answer iron-containing protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen for delivery to cells

  • Functions of blood
  • –Answer transportation, regulation, protection

  • Transportation of Blood
  • –Answer oxygen, nutrients, wastes, carbon dioxide, and hor- mones

  • Protection of blood
  • –Answer -protects the body from excessive bleeding by clotting, -contains specialized immune cells to help fight disease and sickness -Immune response

  • Regulation of blood
  • –Answer pH Buffers 1 / 2

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-hydrogen,biocarbonate Body Temp Osmotic Pressure H2O content of cells

  • Hemopoiesis
  • –Answer production of blood cells

  • Erythrocytes
  • –Answer red blood cells -Live for days to weeks -no organelles, no nucleus

  • Erthropoiesis
  • –Answer production of red blood cells -occurs in RED BONE MARROW

  • Erythropoietin
  • –Answer a hormone secreted by the kidneys that increases the rate of production of red blood cells in response to falling levels of oxygen(hypoxia) in the tissues.

  • Hematocrit
  • –Answer percentage of blood volume occupied by red blood cells -42% in women -47% in men

  • Anemia
  • –Answer lack of a normal number of red blood cells

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SUBSCRIBE BIOS 255 Midterm Exam 1. What are the formed elements of blood? –Answer red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets 2. centrifuged blood –Answer 55% Plasma, Buffy Coat, 45% RBC 3. w...

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