Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The blood
- Components of the blood
- Plasma
- Liquid part of blood
- carries blood cells around the body
- Carries dissolved nutirents, hormones, CO2 and urea
- Red blood cells
- Structure
- Biconcave, disc-like cells
- No nucleus
- Millions in each mm3 of blood
- Transports oxygen- mainly hamoeglobin
- Loads oxygen in the lungs and unloads in other parts of the body
- White blood cells
- Lymphocytes
- roughly same size as red blood cells
- large spherical nucleus
- produce antibodies to destroy microorganisms
- Some stay in the blood after infection and give us immunity to specific diseases
- Phagocytes
- Much larger cells
- lobed nucleus
- Engulf bacteria and microorganisms that have infected our bodies
- Platelets
- smallest cells
- Release chemicals to make blood clot when we cut ourselves