Circulatory System
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What is the name for blood in organisms without a closed circulatory system?
hemolymph
What are the two primary components of blood?
plasma and red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets
What is blood plasma?
mostly water, with glucose/hormones/ions/gases
What are three proteins found in plasma?
albumin, fibrinogen, lipoproteins
What makes all the blood proteins?
liver
What volume of blood does plasma comprise?
50%
What is the most abundant type of cell in blood?
red blood cells
Red blood cells are filled with which protein?
hemoglobin
What is the only cell in the body to not have a nucleus?
red blood cells
What are phagocytes?
things that eat other things, like WBCs do
What are lymphocytes?
involved in immunity
What are the two types of lymphocytes?
B-cells and T-cells
What are B-cells?
make antibodies
What are antibodies?
markers that bind to foreign things and mark them for destruction
Where are blood cells made?
bone marrow
What are the two jobs of T-cells?
help B-cells divide/proliferate, kill infected cells
How is AIDS dangerous?
kills T-cells which are essential for fighting disease
How do platelets work?
convert soluble fibrinogen into insoluble fibrin for blood clotting
What is anemia?
disease caused by insufficient diet of iron and thus insufficient hemoglobin
What is agglutination?
clumping of red blood cells
Which blood type is the universal recipient?
AB type
Which blood type is the universal donor?
O type
AB can receive blood from which types?
AB, A, B, O
AB can donate to which types?
AB