Blood and Lymphatic

• Describe components of blood

  liquid: plasma

  Formed: RBC, WBC, Platlets
• What is the function of blood


  Transport, nutrients, waste and hormones and clot cells
• What is the volume of blood

  3-4x more than h2o--> abc from bone marrow
• what is the shape of RBC

  biconcave disk
• how does the shape enhance the function of the red blood cell

  transporting the gases and increases surface area
• what organelle do mature red blood cells lack

  nucleus and therefore cannot divide
• what is the function of hemoglobin

  carry oxygen from the lungs to every cell in the body
• where are the red blood cells produced

  red bone marrow
• how is the production of red blood cells controlled

  erythropoiten
• what factors would cause to normal increase in red blood cells

  higher altitudes
• what dietary factors influence red blood cell production

  vitamin B needed fro DNA
• how are red blood cells damaged

  macrophage eating
• what happens to damaged red blood cells

  iron biliverdin,bilirubin, proteins
• what causes an increase or decrease in white blood cells

  increase WBC - leukocytes and decrease WBC-leukopenia