Blood Review

Question 1

What is blood?

Answer 1

A connective tissues

Question 2

What is an appropriate blood pH?

Answer 2

7.35-7.45

Question 3

How much blood is in an adult body?

Answer 3

4.7-5.5 liters

Question 4

What’s the name to remember the relative abundance of different leukocytes?

Answer 4

Never Let Monkeys Eat Bananas

Question 5

What’s the composition of blood?

Answer 5

Plasma 55%, Formed elements 45.5%, and Leukocytes

Question 6

What percent of all blood is erythrocytes?

Answer 6

45%

Question 7

What percent of all blood is plasma?

Answer 7

55%

Question 8

What shape are red blood cells?

Answer 8

Donut-shaped

Question 9

Why are red blood cells shaped like donuts?

Answer 9

To make it foldable and increase the surface area of the cell

Question 10

What does hemoglobin require?

Answer 10

Iron

Question 11

What does iron do in hemoglobin?

Answer 11

When hemoglobin is exposed to oxygen, oxygen binds to the iron and created oxyhemoglobin

Question 12

What are erythrocytes?

Answer 12

Red blood cells

Question 13

What are red blood cells?

Answer 13

Erythrocytes

Question 14

What do erythrocytes do?

Answer 14

They transport oxygen from lungs to tissues, and carbon dioxide from tissues to lungs

Question 15

What is unique about erythrocytes?

Answer 15

They have almost no organelles and they have no nucleus. Also, they can’t divide

Question 16

What shape are erythrocytes?

Answer 16

They’re donut shaped

Question 17

How many red blood cells are there in the body?

Answer 17

20-30 trillion red blood cells

Question 18

What does erythropoietin do?

Answer 18

It decreases the number of red blood cells

Question 19

What does hematapoesis do?

Answer 19

It forms blood cells in the red bone marrow

Question 20

How and where are blood cells formed?

Answer 20

They’re formed via hematapoesis in the red bone marrow

Question 21

What are the proteins in plasma?

Answer 21

Albumin, globulin, and fibrinogen

Question 22

What does albumin do?

Answer 22

It helps maintain water balance

Question 23

What does globulin do?

Answer 23

It helps transport and the immune system

Question 24

What does fibrinogen do?

Answer 24

Helps blood clots form

Question 25

What is erythropoesis?

Answer 25

The process that balances the production and destruction of red blood cells

Question 26

What do stem cells do?

Answer 26

They can turn into almost any kind of blood cell

Question 27

What happens do destroyed ethyrocytes?

Answer 27

The iron is salvaged and stored and the heme is degraded into bilirubin

Question 28

Where does bilirubin come from and go?

Answer 28

It comes from the heme and is moved to the liver, where it's secreted into the bile and feces

Question 29

What does heme turn into and come from?

Answer 29

It comes from erythrocytes and is degraded into bilirubin

Question 30

What causes anemia?

Answer 30

It's an insufficient number of red blood cells and iron

Question 31

What is a transfusion reaction?

Answer 31

It's when the antibodies attack the antigen and cause agglutination

Question 32

What are the different blood types?

Answer 32

A, B, AB, and O

Question 33

What antigens and antibodies does blood type A have?

Answer 33

It has A antigens and B antibodies

Question 34

What's an antigen?

Answer 34

The protein

Question 35

What's an antibody?

Answer 35

The fighty thing

Question 36

What's a leukeocyte?

Answer 36

White blood cells

Question 37

What percent of blood is made up by leukocytes?

Answer 37

Less than 1%

Question 38

What is a white blood cell called?

Answer 38

A leukeocyte

Question 39

What is diapedesis?

Answer 39

When leukocytes move out of the capillaries

Question 40

What is positive chemotais?

Answer 40

When leukocytes move towards the capillaries

Question 41

What is amoeboid movement?

Answer 41

The movement of leukocytes through tissues

Question 42

What is the movement of leukocytes out of the capillaries called?

Answer 42

Diapedesis

Question 43

What is the movement of leukocytes towards capillaries called?

Answer 43

Positive chemotais

Question 44

What is the movement of leukocytes through tissues called?

Answer 44

Amoeboid movement

Question 45

What is an intrinsic clotting factor?

Answer 45

A clotting trigger present in the blood

Question 46

What is a clotting factor present in the blood called?

Answer 46

An intrinsic factor

Question 47

What is an extrinsic clotting factor?

Answer 47

A clotting trigger present in the tissues

Question 48

What is the clotting factor that's present in tissues called?

Answer 48

An extrinsic factor

Question 49

How is an intrinsic clotting factor activated?

Answer 49

Via intermediate steps/ chain reaction

Question 50

How is an extrinsic clotting factor activated?

Answer 50

When blood is exposed to the tissue

Question 51

Which one is faster, intrinsic or extrinsic?

Answer 51

Extrinsic is faster

Question 52

What are the three steps of hemostasis?

Answer 52

Blood vessel constriction, platelet plugs, and blood clotting

Question 53

What is hemostasis?

Answer 53

The stopping of blood loss

Question 54

What is the stopping of blood loss called?

Answer 54

Hemostasis

Question 55

What are platelets?

Answer 55

Minute cell fragments

Question 56

What are minute cell fragments in the blood called?

Answer 56

Platelets

Question 57

What prevents blood loss?

Answer 57

Platelets

Question 58

What do platelets do?

Answer 58

They prevent blood loss

Question 59

How do platelets do their job?

Answer 59

They prevent blood loss via platelets plugs and clot formation

Question 60

What term refers to all cells and cell pieces in the blood?

Answer 60

Formed elements

Question 61

What are formed elements?

Answer 61

All the cells and cell pieces in the blood

Question 62

What happens to your red blood cell count when you go to a place with a high elevation?

Answer 62

Your RBC count increases

Question 63

What's one example of the blood maintaining homeostasis?

Answer 63

When you go to a place with a high altitude, your red blood cell count increases to help oxygen transport

Question 64

What disorders are related to platelets and clot formation?

Answer 64

Thromboembolic disorders, thrombocytopenia, and hemophilia

Question 65

What is thrombocytopenia?

Answer 65

A disorder caused by deficient platelet count

Question 66

What are some different RBC disorders?

Answer 66

Anemia and polychemia

Question 67

What is hemoglobin?

Answer 67

A protein in RBCs with a chain-like structure

Question 68

What are the different types of lukeocytes?

Answer 68

Neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, basophils