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Blood Basics: 1. What Makes Up The Blood in Our Bodies?

The document provides information about blood basics including the components of blood (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, plasma), blood facts (average volume, functions, ratios of components), genetics of blood types (inherited antigens, common blood types by percentage), blood transfusions (universal donor and recipient types, Rh factors), and the discovery of Rh proteins from rhesus monkeys.

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Blood Basics: 1. What Makes Up The Blood in Our Bodies?

The document provides information about blood basics including the components of blood (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, plasma), blood facts (average volume, functions, ratios of components), genetics of blood types (inherited antigens, common blood types by percentage), blood transfusions (universal donor and recipient types, Rh factors), and the discovery of Rh proteins from rhesus monkeys.

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BLOOD BASICS

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1. What makes up the blood in our bodies?


• __________ __________ ___________(erythrocytes) – The most abundant
cells in our blood; they are produced in the bone marrow and contain a protein
called haemoglobin that carries oxygen to our cells.
• __________ __________ __________ (leukocytes) – They are part of the
immune system and destroy pathogens.
• _________________ – The yellowish liquid portion of blood that contains
electrolytes, nutrients and vitamins, hormones, clotting factors, and proteins
such as antibodies to fight infection.
• ________________ (thrombocytes) – The clotting factors that are carried in
the plasma; they clot together in a process called coagulation to seal a wound
and prevent a loss of blood.

2. Blood Facts
A. The average adult has about ___________ litres of blood inside of their
body, which makes up 7-8% of their body weight.
B. This red liquid is living ___________ that carries oxygen and nutrients to all
parts of the body, and carries carbon dioxide and other waste products back
to the lungs, kidneys and liver for disposal. It fights against ___________ and
helps heal ___________.

C. There are about one _____________ red blood cells in two to three drops
of blood. For every _______ red blood cells, there are about _______
platelets and _______ white cell.
3. Genetics of Blood
Your blood type is established before you are ___________, by specific
___________ inherited from your parents.
These two genes - one gene from your ___________ and one from your
___________ - determine your blood type by causing proteins called
______________________ to exist on the surface of all of your red blood
cells.

4. Blood Types
A. There are three alleles or genes for blood type: ___, ___, and ___.
B. What are the four types of blood? Give the genotypes for each.
Type A = ____ ____ Type B = ____ ____ Type AB = ____ Type O = ____

5. How common are the four blood types?

A = _____ % B = _____ % AB = _____ % O= _____ %

6. Blood Transfusions
A. What blood type is known as the "Universal Donor"? __________
B. What blood type is known as the "Universal Recipient"? _________
C. Complete the diagram using the class notes.
D. Complete this statement: A person with Rh + blood may receive blood that
is ____ or _____, while a person with Rh - blood can only receive _____
blood.

7. Rh (Rhesus) Factors 
What animal helped scientists discover Rh proteins in blood?
____________________ ___________________If someone has the Rh
protein, they are said to have Rh ________________ blood. If someone does
not have this protein, they have Rh ____________________ blood.

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