Blood vessels and the Heart
These blood vessels take blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
These are the cells that bring oxygen to the body.
What are red blood cells?
This blood type, called the universal donor, has none of the three antigens that can be present in blood.
What is O-?
This is the basic unit of inheritance, and you receive one set of them from your mother and one set from your father.
What is a gene?
This is the most muscular chamber of your heart.
What is the left ventricle?
This is the primary function of white blood cells.
What is fighting infection?
This antigen determines if a blood type is “positive” or “negative.”
What is the Rh or Rhesus antigen?
The stronger of a pair of genes is called “dominant.” The weaker is called this:
What is recessive?
This is where your blood does all of its work.
What are capillaries?
This substance is mostly water and makes up the majority of blood.
What is plasma?
Can your blood type ever change?
No
True or false: A punnett square is used to figure out all the possible combinations of children a pair of parents could produce.
True
This is the Greek prefix for “heart.” When said on its own, it usually refers to exercise.
What is "cardio?"
This is the protein that helps blood carry oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?
These blood types could donate to A- blood.
What are A- and O-?
This is the number of pairs of genes that determine your full blood type (both ABO and Rh).
What is 2?
This is the part of your heart that divides the right and left side.
What is the septum?
These cells form a clot when a blood vessel ruptures.
What are platelets?
These are the proteins that your body produces which attack incoming blood cells during mismatched blood transfusions.
What are antibodies?
This is the only possible ABO blood type of a child whose parents have the genes A/A -/- and B/B -/-
What is AB-?