Facts
Blood Types
Function
Vocabulary
Extra
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Red blood cells lack…
Most organelles, including nuclei and ribosomes
100
A person with type AB- can receive blood from
A-, B-, O- and AB-
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Red Blood Cells function to _______________ and____________ to parts of your body

Transport oxygen and carbon dioxide

100
What is the scientific name of a red blood cell?
Erythrocytes
100
When oxygen is carried in the blood, it attaches to __________ found on the red blood cell.
hemoglobin
200
The condition in which the oxygen-carrying capacity of red blood cells is reduced is....
anemia
200
A person with type 0- blood can receive blood from
0-
200
What is the function of platelets in blood?
Are involved in blood clotting
200
What is the scientific name of a white blood cell?
Leukocytes
200
Cancer of the white blood cell is also referred to as
Leukemia
300

Blood type can receive blood from what type?

A B AB O

300
What causes blood type?
Antigens on the red blood cell.
300

White Blood cells function in the body is to

fight against disease

300
What is the scientific name of a platelet?
Thrombocytes
300
New blood cells are produced in the
Bone marrow
400
What percentage of blood is made up of plasma?
55 percent of blood volume
400
Can an individual with a positive Rh receive a negative Rh transfusion? Why?
Yes. Rh positive individuals do not have antibodies for Rh.
400

Red blood cells with neither type A or B antigens

Type 0

400

Clean up crew, a cell that ingests bacteria, virus and old neutrophils)

phagocyte

400
Which protein builds a weblike net to help form a clot?
Fibrin
500

If a person has type 0 who can he give blood from?

everyone

500

What type of blood does a universal donor have?

O-

500

The most abundant cell type in the body is…

red blood cells

500

Most numerous type of white blood cells?

neutrophil

500
Hemophilia is a disease characterized by a defect in
blood clotting
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