Composition of blood

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What is Regular Format in publishing?

Regular format refers to the standard layout and design used in publishing, ensuring consistency in style, font, and structure across various publications.

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What do red blood cells carry and where

They pick up oxygen from air in your lungs and carry it to the cells

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Why are rbc biconcave

They are by concave discs being by concave on both sides gives them an increase surface area to volume ratio for diffusion

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Do white blood cells have a nucleus?

Yes

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What is a white blood cells job

They are part of the bodies defence system against micro organisms

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How do phagocytes protect you against disease?

Phagocytes engulf and destroy unwanted microorganisms that enter the blood by process of phagocytosis ingestion of bacteria. They neutralised the toxin.

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How do you lymphocyte protect you against disease?

Soluble proteins called antibodies which have a complementary shape to antigens/pathogens when a foreign bodies such as micro organisms into the body they come together to engulf .neutralise the toxin

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What do platelets do?

Help clot blood

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What is plasma

Yellow liquid that transports everything you need . It carries urea hormones and glucose

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What does the heart do

It is an organ that pumps blood around the body in a double circularly system

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What do red blood cells not have to make more space for haemoglobin?

A nucleus

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