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| What are the three major components of the Circulatory System? |
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| Heart, blood vessels, and blood |
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| What makes up the Blood Vessels? |
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| Veins, arteries, capillaries |
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| Red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, platelets |
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| Carry deoxygenated blood to the heart |
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| Carry oxygenated blood away from the heart and to the rest of the body |
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Color varies from scarlet to dark red.
It's pH is basic 7.35 - 7.45.
Temperature is 38 degrees Celsius.
Blood accounts for about 8 percent of body weight. |
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| Substance distribution, Regulate blood levels of particular substances, and gives the body protection |
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| What does blood transport? |
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| Oxygen from teh lungs, metabolic wastes, and hormones |
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| What does blood regulate? |
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| Appropriate body temperature, pH, and fluid volume (hydration) |
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| What does the circulatory protect you from? |
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| How does the circulatory system prevent infection? |
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| Making and using antibodies and activating white blood cells to defend the body from foreign invaders. |
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| Protein, Oxygen, and Carbon Dioxide is in what part of the blood? |
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| the proteins in plasma are what? |
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| What is the main function of blood plasma? |
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| What are two wastes that plasma gets rid of? |
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| Red Blood Cells are filled with what? |
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| What is hemoglobin and what does it do? |
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| It's a protein that functions in oxygen transport |
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| What are the physical characteristics of a Red Blood Cell? |
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| No nuclei and no organelles |
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| What are platelets and what do they do? |
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| Fragments of blood cells that form temporary plugs (scabs) |
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| White Blood Cells don't work right which causes sickness and infection |
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| Point Red blood cells instead of rounded ones |
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