Hemoglobin and red Blood Cells

Question 1

myoglobin is found in….

Answer 1

muscles

Question 2

Hemoglobin graphs are….

Answer 2

sigmoidal

Question 3

Red Blood cells have lots of ___ in them

Answer 3

Iron (Fe)

Question 4

Blood cells are also called….

Answer 4

erythrocytes

Question 5

Albumin maintains

Answer 5

Oncotic Pressure (stuff in the blood)(uses water to regulate this)

Question 6

Fibrinogen

Answer 6

Clotting

Question 7

Red blood cells take about __ weeks to form and live for about ___ days

Answer 7

2, 120

Question 8

Red blood cells that have lived their life are removed by the____

Answer 8

spleen

Question 9

Red blood cells do not have….

Answer 9

nuclei, organelles (are not stained by DNA staining material) (anuclear)

Question 10

myoglobin vs hemoglobin for oxygen

Answer 10

myoglobin (higher oxygen affinity) (found in muscles, does not go to lungs, needs it more)

Question 11

Maternal vs fetal myoglobin….who wins

Answer 11

fetal

Question 12

myoglobin saturation curve

Answer 12

looks like a plateauing graph

Question 13

Hemoglobin carries ___ throughout the body

Answer 13

oxygen

Question 14

Hemoglobin (see)

Answer 14

Question 15

Bohr Effect

Answer 15

Down Right shift

(generate more CO2 (exhaling) makes blood more basic)

(keeping CO2 makes blood more acidic)

Question 16

Erythropoietin

Answer 16

makes RBCs (takes about two weeks to make a RBC)

Question 17

Fibrin

Answer 17

Formed during the clotting of blood

Question 18

Fibrinogen

Answer 18

Makes fibrin (blood clotting)