2.1.4 Routine Testing: In the Lab

Question 1

What is the scientific name for Red blood cells?

Answer 1

Erythrocytes

Question 2

What is the scientific name for white blood cells?

Answer 2

leukocytes

Question 3

What is the scientific name for platelets?

Answer 3

Thrombocytes

Question 4

What is the scientific name for Plasma?

Answer 4

Plasma or also known as blood plasma and is the liquid portion of blood

Question 5

What is the job of a red blood cell?

Answer 5

to carry oxygen from the lungs and deliver it throughout our body

Question 6

What is the job of a white blood cell?

Answer 6

immune system cells

Question 7

What is the job of a platelets?

Answer 7

to prevent and stop bleeding

Question 8

What is the job of a plasma?

Answer 8

to take nutrients, hormones, and proteins to the parts of the body that need it.

Question 9

What do phlebotomists do?

Answer 9

Trained to draw blood from patients who require testing well as blood donors.

Question 10

What is the result of a patient having a sickle cell anemia?

Answer 10

blood cells cannot carry oxygen

Question 11

Hemoglobin (HB/Hgb)

Answer 11

Oxygen carrying protein on red blood cells (RBC)

Question 12

What does a hematologist do?

Answer 12

Analyze blood

Question 13

Is a LDL good or bad and why?

Answer 13

LDL is good because it transports cholesterol to the cells, but LDL need to maintain a specfic balance.

Question 14

Is a HDL good or bad and why?

Answer 14

HDL is good because it helps balance the LDL in your body.

Question 15

Is saturated fat solid or liquid at room temp?

Answer 15

Solid

Question 16

Is unsaturated fat solid or liquid at room temp?

Answer 16

Liquid

Question 17

What is metabolism?

Answer 17

Chemical reactions and operations going on inside the body.