Blood

Question 1

What hormone regulates the production of RBC? Where is it produced? What controls this?

Answer 1

Erythropoietin, kidneys, the amount of oxygen in the blood

Question 2

Anemia

Answer 2

Disease that is caused by a deficiency in rbc

Question 3

Protein that determines blood type

Answer 3

Antigen

Question 4

If a person is type o what is found of surface of rbc

Answer 4

Nothing

Question 5

What antibodies are present in someone w 0 neg

Answer 5

Anti-A
Anti-B
Anti-Rh

Question 6

What would happen is a person w A positive was given B negative type blood?

Answer 6

The anti-b antibodies would attach to the b antigens and agglutinate

Question 7

What causes a persons blood to be positive or negative

Answer 7

Rh antigen

Question 8

What blood type would a person be if they only had the Rh antigen in the surface of their RBC

Answer 8

0+

Question 9

Thrombus

Answer 9

A blood clot of blockage attached to the vessel wall

Question 10

Embolus

Answer 10

A blood clot that breaks free of the vessel and floats around

Question 11

Thrombocytopenia

Answer 11

Lower than normal amount of platelets

Question 12

Hemophilia

Answer 12

Bleeders disease lack of clotting factors in the blood

Question 13

Leukemia

Answer 13

Cancer of bone marrow, increased number of immature RBC’s produced

Question 14

Leukocytosis

Answer 14

Higher than normal amount of WBC’s

Natural response to infection

Question 15

Leukopenia

Answer 15

Lower than normal amount of wbc

Question 16

Anemia

Answer 16

Lack of RBC

Lower ability to carry 02

Question 17

Polycythemia

Answer 17

Higher than normal amount of RBC

Life at high altitudes

Question 18

Physiological jaundic

Answer 18

Causes yellowing of skin. In newborns from the rapid breakdown of fetal hemoglobin

Bilirubin builds up

Question 19

3 steps of hemostasis

Answer 19

1. Vascular spasm
2. Platelet plug
   3 coagulation

Question 20

Blood typing

Answer 20

Combine blood w all antibodies

If clumping occurs that indicated blood type

Question 21

Function of leukocytes

Answer 21

Defend tissues against infections and foreign substances

Question 22

Cancer of wbc

Answer 22

Leukemia

Question 23

2 functions of platelets

Answer 23

They form platelet plugs(hemostasis)

Involved in the blood clotting process