Blood Cells Test Study Guide

Red blood cells have a shape of a ?

"Biconcave"

Adults donate their blood at a ?

Blood Bank

Platelets form?

Blood Clots

The liquid part of the blood is called what?

Plasma

True or False? Red blood cells eventually die?

True

Blood get's oxygen from your what?

Lungs

________________ - Turning on the Powerhouse. ______________ are known as the powerhouses of the cell.

Mitochondria

Iron makes blood appear?

Red

What is another function that red blood cells do?

Remove carbon dioxide from your body, transporting it to the lungs for you to exhale

A space or vesicle within the cytoplasm of a cell, enclosed by a membrane and typically containing fluid.

Vacuole

What bone are red blood cells made out of?

Bone Marrow

Red blood cells do what?

Carries oxygen and nutrients to the body

Jelly-like substance holding the cell substances. The material or protoplasm within a living cell, excluding the nucleus.

Cytoplasm

True or False? Another word for a red blood cell is enthrocycolysim.

FALSE! Right answer is enthrocytes

White blood cells do what?

Fights disease and infection

A ___________________, also known as the nucleolemma or karyotheca, is the phospho lipid bilayer membrane which surrounds the genetic material and nucleolus in eukaryotic cells.

Nuclear Membrane

The central and most important part of an object, movement, or group, forming the basis for its activity and growth.

Nucleus

What does blood travel through?

The body, veins, and arteries

Red blood cells are the most ____________ cell type in the human body.

Abundant

If you did not have enough red blood cells in your body, you would not be able to?

Carry oxygen and nutrients throughout your body

This structure surrounds the cell?

Cell Membrane

The matrix that red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets are suspended in is also known as?

Hemoglobin

What is hemoglobin?

Hemoglobin is the protein that is inside red blood cells that carries oxygen.

White blood cells belong to what system?

Immune System

The hemoglobin molecules transport what?

Oxygen

What blood cell gives blood it's color?

Red Blood Cells

The four components of blood are?

White blood cells, red blood cells, plasma, and platelets.