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Is an adaption for transporting (__) ; it increases the surface area through which gases can diffuse. The RBC's shape also places the cell membrance closer to the oxygen carrying (__) in the cell. |
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| When hemoglobin binds Os, the resulting oxyhemoglobin is (__), When oxygen is released, the resulting deoxyhemoglin is darker. Blood rich in deoxyhemoglin may appear bluish when it is viewd through the blood vessel walls. |
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| The number of circulating RBC's increased the blood's (__), changes in this number may affect health. |
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| RBC formation usually occurs in the __,__, and ____. After birth they these cells are produced almost exclusively by tissue lining the spaces in bones, filled with red bone marrow. |
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| Yolk sac, Liver and spleen. |
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| The average life span of RBC is __ days. |
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| Prolonged O2 deficiency causes cyanosis, in which the skin and mucouse membranes appear bluish due to an abnormally high blood concentration of ____. |
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| The hormone __ controls the rate of RBC formation through __. |
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| Erythropoietin; Negative feed back |
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| __ phagocytize and destroy damaged RBC, primarily in the liver and spleen. |
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| ___= a bile that pigment produced from hemoglin break down. This is eventrually converted to a an orange pigment called __. |
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| In ___ diseases, a single DNA base mutation changes one amino acid in the protein part of the hemoglobin, causing hemoglobin to crystallize in a low-O2 environment. This bends the RBC's containing the abnormal hemoglobin into a sickle shape, which blocks circulation in small blood vessels, causing excruciating joint pain and damaging many organs. |
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| Physiologic jaundice may be the result of immature liver cells that ineffectivley excrete ___ into the bile. |
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| A deficiency of RBC, or a reduction in the amount of hemoglobin they contain, results in a condition called ___. |
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| Average number of RBC is males is _____, Females is _____. |
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4,200,000-5,400,000- Females
4,600,000- 6,200,000- Males |
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