Unit 9- Red Blood Cells

Question 1

How long do red blood cells live?

Answer 1

120 days

Question 2

Where are red blood cells produced

Answer 2

In red bone marrow(in skull, ribs, vertebrae, and long bones)

Question 3

Myeloid stem cells (Erythrocytes)

Form into

Answer 3

Erythrocytes( Red blood cells)

Question 4

How many red blood cells are produced every second?

Answer 4

5 million

Question 5

Red blood cells contain a protein called

Answer 5

Hemoglobin

Question 6

What does hemoglobin contain that gives blood is red color?

Answer 6

Iron

Question 7

How many hemoglobin molecules are in one red blood cell?

Answer 7

200 million

Question 8

If hemoglobin was not packaged up in red blood cell what would leak out of the circulatory system?

Answer 8

Oxygen

Question 9

Where is hemoglobin destroyed?

Answer 9

In the liver and spleen

Question 10

Read that sells allow the blood to remain liquid so

Answer 10

The heart does not have to work as hard

Question 11

The lungs are

Answer 11

Cooler and less acidic

causes haemoglobin to pick up oxygen

Question 12

The body is

Answer 12

Warmer, more acidic

Causes hemoglobin to drop off oxygen

Question 13

May have another antigen called antigen ___

Answer 13

Antigen D

Question 14

Antigen D is also known as

Answer 14

The Rhesus factor

Question 15

What is it called when the mother would try and destroy the babies red blood cell by producing antibody D?

Answer 15

Erythroblastosis

Question 16

What would occur if the second baby is RH+?

Answer 16

Then aggutination would occur and the baby would be in trouble

Question 17

What enzyme can be injected into a mom with eliminates antibody D?

Answer 17

RHOgen

Question 18

Red blood cells can _______ and ________through the body’s blood vessels

Answer 18

bend and pass

Question 19

Red blood cell function

Answer 19

Carry oxygen

Question 20

What is it called when haemoglobin combines with oxygen?

Answer 20

Oxyhemoglobin-bright red

Question 21

What is it called when haemoglobin releases oxygen?

Answer 21

Deoxyhemoglobin- darker reddish colour

Question 22

Prolonged oxygen deficiency is called what? And results in…

Answer 22

Hypoxia, results in a blueish cyanotic appearance

Question 23

Old red blood cells are more rigid and have difficulty getting through the _________

Answer 23

Capillaries

Question 24

Haemoglobin decomposes into

Answer 24

Iron and a greenest pigment, biliverdin

Question 25

What causes a severe reduction in red blood cell numbers?

Answer 25

Vitamin B 12 and folic acid deficiency

Question 26

Vitamin C helps

Answer 26

Iron absorption