RBC/WBC MORPHOLOGY

Question 1

produce colonies composed of specific kinds of mature cells when grown in culture

Answer 1

colony forming units

Question 2

residing progenitor cells derived from CFU-S cells, responsible for the formation of erythrocytes; they require low concentrations of erythropoietin to undergo a burst of mitotic activity to form a very large number of CFU-Es

Answer 2

burst forming unit

Question 3

HBCs give rise to?

Answer 3

common lymphoid

common myeloid progenitor cells

Question 4

an anucleate cell which is the vehicle for the transportation of hemoglobin

Answer 4

erythrocyte

Question 5

transportation of oxygen and CO2

Answer 5

hemoglobin

Question 6

combined population of erythrocytes and their precursors, whether mature or immature, in blood, bone marrow or extravascular spaces

Answer 6

erythron

Question 7

normoblastic maturation?

Answer 7

pronormblast (proerythrocyte)
basophilic normoblast (early erythroblast)
polychromatophilic normoblast (late erythroblast)
orthrochromatic normoblast (normoblast)
reticulocyte