Non cellular components of blood

Question 1

How do you remove the cellular components of the blood

Answer 1

By centrifugation or filtration

Question 2

Removal of the cellular components of the blood leaves what

Answer 2

Plasma

Question 3

What is Plasma made of

Answer 3

90% water and the rest is salt, proteins, hormones, gases and nutrients and waste products

Question 4

Name 3 plasma components which serve specific functions in the blood

Answer 4

Albumin, Blood clotting and Globulins

Question 5

Albumin accounts for how much of all plasma protein

Answer 5

60%

Question 6

Name 4 functions of albumin

Answer 6

Transport of other molecules, buffering of blood, contributing to the osmotic pressure of blood and distribution of body heat

Question 7

Another name for the blood clotting system

Answer 7

coagulation system

Question 8

What happens when a blood vessel is ruptured (in terms of clotting)

Answer 8

Chemical reactions are triggered within the clotting. These chemical reactions and platelets form a fibrous clot

Question 9

Scientific name of a fibrous clot

Answer 9

Thrombus

Question 10

What is serum

Answer 10

Plasma minus the clotting system proteins

Question 11

What is Hemostasis

Answer 11

Stoppage of bleeding

Question 12

What are the 3 main phases during hemostasis

Answer 12

1) Vascular spasm 2) platelet plug formation 3)Coagulation

Question 13

Name 3 types of globulins

Answer 13

Alpha Beta Gamma

Question 14

What are the antibodies of globulins

Answer 14

Gamma globulins

Question 15

What are gamma globulins produced by

Answer 15

B lymphocytes during an immune response