A&P Quiz 8

Bill wants to determine his blood type, so he takes a few drops of blood from a puncture wound in his finger and mixes it with various antisera. His blood cells agglutinate when mixed with the anti-A serum and anti-Rh serum, but not with the anti-B serum. This means

Bill's plasma contains anti-B antibodies.

Which of the following is a FALSE statement?

Blood is a specialized epithelial tissue.

Which statement regarding red blood cells is true?

Red blood cells are not capable of mitosis.

Why might women be more prone to suffering from iron-deficient anemia than men?

Women have approximately half as many iron reserves.

Agglutinins

are antibodies that will attack surface antigens on RBCs of a different blood type.

In the process of hemoglobin recycling, each heme molecule is stripped of its iron and converted to which pigmented organic compound?

biliverdin

Plasma and interstitial fluid account for most of the volume of ________ in the body.

extracellular fluid

For erythropoiesis to proceed normally, protein synthesis requires adequate supplies of factors, such as vitamin B12, which is absorbed from the diet in the presence of which of the following?

intrinsic factor

Excess transferrins are removed in the ________, where the iron extracted from heme molecules is stored in special protein-iron complexes.

liver and spleen

In blood smear preparations, blood is collected from which type of vessel?

peripheral capillaries

A toxin that blocks the stomach's ability to release intrinsic factor would most likely cause

pernicious anemia.

Recall that blood is a fluid connective tissue (as you saw in Chapter 4: The Tissue Level of Organization). Like all connective tissues, blood has three components: (1) specialized cells, (2) extracellular protein fibers, and (3) a ground substance. The extracellular fibers and ground substance form the matrix that surrounds the cells. In blood, the ground substance is a fluid. The watery matrix is called plasma. The plasma proteins are dissolved and usually do NOT form insoluble fibers. Which one of the specialized cells found in blood functions to transport oxygen?

red blood cells

What is albumin?

the primary plasma protein