Blood Flashcards
What type of tissue is blood?
A fluid connective tissue
What percentage of body weight is blood?
8%
What is made up of cells and cell fragments in a liquid matrix?
Blood
What is a liquid matrix?
Plasma
What does cells, cell fragments, and plasma make up?
Blood
What is blood made of?
Cells, cell fragments, and plasma
What percent of the blood is plasma?
55%
What makes up 55% of the blood?
Plasma
What color is plasma?
Pale yellow
What part of the blood is pale yellow?
Plasma
What makes up 90% of plasma?
Water
What makes up 8% of plasma?
Proteins
What makes up plasma? (Percents)
90% water, 8% proteins, and 2% other stuff
What is made up of water, proteins, and other stuff?
Plasma
What makes up 45% of whole blood?
Erythrocytes
What do erythrocytes make up?
45% of whole blood
What are erythrocytes made up of?
Hematocrit
What does hematocrit make up?
Erythrocytes
What are the formed elements?
Erythrocytes and the buffy coat
What makes up less than one percent of whole blood?
The buffy coat
What does the buffy coat made of?
Platelets
What do platelets make up?
The buffy coat
What do white blood cells make up?
Platelets
What are platelets made of?
White blood cells
What are erythrocytes?
Red blood cells
What are red blood cells?
Erythrocytes
What type of cells don’t have a nucleus or really any organelles?
Red blood cells/ erythrocytes
What don’t red blood cells have? What does this mean?
A nucleus or really any organelles, which means they can’t divide
What transports oxygen from the lungs to tissues, and carbon dioxide from tissues to lungs?
Erythrocytes
What do erythrocytes do?
They transport oxygen from the lungs to tissues, and carbon dioxide from tissues to lungs
What shape are erythrocytes?
Disk shaped/ a donut without a hole
Why are erythrocytes shaped the way they are?
To increase the surface area of the cell and be foldable
How long do erythrocytes live?
100 to 120 days
What type of cells live 100-120 days?
Erythrocytes
What is the main component of erythrocytes?
Hemoglobin
What is hemoglobin the main component of?
Erythrocytes
What does hemoglobin do?
It transports oxygen
What transports oxygen?
Hemoglobin
What does each globin protein have?
4 chains that attach to a heme pigment
What has 4 chains that attach to a heme pigment?
Hemoglobin
How much iron does each heme have?
1 iron atom
What happens when hemoglobin is exposed to oxygen?
The oxygen binds to the iron
What does oxygen bind with in hemoglobin?
It binds with the iron
What is oxyhemoglobin?
A complex of hemoglobin and oxygen
What is a complex of hemoglobin and oxygen called?
Oxyhemoglobin
How many red blood cells are in the body?
20-30 trillion
How many red blood cells are there in each microliter of blood?
5 million
How many hemoglobin molecules are there in each erythrocyte?
250+ million
How much oxygen does each hemoglobin molecule carry?
4
How many oxygen are there in a red blood cell?
1.08 billion
How many red blood cells are made per second in the body?
2 million
Why does the body make so many red blood cells?
To balance out the red blood cell death rate
What makes up 60% of plasma proteins?
Albumin
What percentage of plasma proteins is made up of albumin?
60%