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Functions of blood

What is blood made up of?

What are the formed elements and their functions?

What is plasma and what is it made up of?

Blood type Antigens and Antibodies (ABO blood types).  Who was Landsteiner?

Compatibility of Blood Types and Blood Type Genetics/Punnett sqaures

Erythroblastosis fetalis

Red Blood Cells Structure, Funtions & Hemoglobin

What is Anemia and what are the different types (Nutritional, Aplastic, Hemorrhagic, Pernicious, and Sickle Cell)?

What is Sickle Cell trait?

White Blood Cells (Examples, functions)   Granulocytes vs. Agranulocytes

Innate (non-specific) vs. Adaptive (specific) immunity

Leukemia (acute, chronic, lymphocytic, myelogenous)  and HIV/AIDS

Platelets/Clotting Process (Hemostasis)  - Clotting considerations

Hemophilia Types A and B (Factor VIII and Factor IX)

What is a Hematocrit?  Various components of hematocrit (including "buffy coat")