Blood

Question 1

What is the technical name for white blood cells?

Answer 1

Leukocytes

Question 2

Granulocytes

Answer 2

Contain visible granules inside the cell

Question 3

Agranulocytes

Answer 3

no visible granules inside the cell

Question 4

Neutrophil

Answer 4

• Granulocyte
• protects against fungal and bacterial infections
• first cells to reach a cut or infectious area
• attach to the walls of the blood vessel and black access of germs into the bloodstream
• Kill by phagocytosis and release bursts of oxides that kill multiple bacteria at once

Question 5

Lymphocytes

Answer 5

• Agranulocytes
• small round cells with a large nucleus with little cytoplasm
• produce antibodies that bind, block and kill pathogens.
• make memory cells that remember a specific pathogen

Question 6

Monocytes

Answer 6

• Agranulocyte
• Largest white blood cell
• similar function to neurophils. become macrophages when they leave the bloodstream here they perform phagocytosis of any dead cells in the body
• their large size enables them to digest large foreign particles in a wound

Question 7

Eosinophils

Answer 7

• Granulocyte
• full pink-orange colour
• fights against paradises and allergies
• release toxins from granules that attack pathogens

Question 8

Basophils

Answer 8

• Granulocyte
• Large dark violet granules giving the cell a blue shade
• produce heparin and histamine to increase blood flow to injury and reduce clotting to enable other cells to easily move to the ares
• release signals calling neutrophils and eosinophils to the area