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Components of Blood

This document provides information about the main components of blood: red blood cells (RBCs), white blood cells (WBCs), and platelets. It describes the functions of RBCs such as carrying oxygen and carbon dioxide, WBCs such as fighting infections, and platelets such as helping blood to clot. The document also discusses plasma, blood type compatibility, blood transfusion reactions, and donor qualifications.

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Components of Blood

This document provides information about the main components of blood: red blood cells (RBCs), white blood cells (WBCs), and platelets. It describes the functions of RBCs such as carrying oxygen and carbon dioxide, WBCs such as fighting infections, and platelets such as helping blood to clot. The document also discusses plasma, blood type compatibility, blood transfusion reactions, and donor qualifications.

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Grade 9

Science

Lesson 6 Part II

Components of Blood:
Mainly there are 3 corpuscles as,

RBC:

1. Produced in the red bone marrow


2. Biconcave cells
3. Transport oxygen and carbon dioxide between
the lungs and tissues
4. No nucleus or organelles
5. More space for haemoglobin to carry more O2
6. Hemoglobin and oxygen together give blood its
red color.
7. Survive between 100 to 120 days
8. Recycled by the macrophages of
the spleen, liver, bone marrow and lymph nodes

WBC:
The job of white blood cells (also
called leukocytes) is to
fight infections and cancer. They also remove
poison, waste and damaged cells from the body.
The number of white blood cells
increases when a person is fighting infection or
disease and decrease when a person is healthy.

White blood cells are categorized


into neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils,
lymphocytes and monocytes.

Platelets:
They help your blood clot; they get together to make a plug to stop bleeding.
Some virus infections cause a rapid decline in a platelet percentage. e.g.
Dengue, Leptospirosis
Blood clotting/ coagulation is an important process that prevents excessive
bleeding when there is an injury or internal bleeding.
When there is an injury or bleeding, the platelets at the damaged blood
vessels breakdown and the resulting chemical process forms a blood clot to
stop bleeding.
Plasma:
Plasma is the largest part of blood. It is a light-yellow
liquid and it carries water, salts and enzymes.
1. Mainly transports all the dissolved substance in it all
over body.
2. It transports the digestive products, minerals and
vitamins to the cells.
3. It transports the excretory products during
biochemical reactions within the cells to the excretory
organs.
4. Plasma transports hormones, proteins, enzymes and gases to the relevant parts of the body

Blood Transfusion:
If you receive blood that is not compatible with your blood, your body produces antibodies to destroy
the donor's blood cells. This process causes the transfusion reaction. Blood that you receive in a
transfusion must be compatible with your own blood.
Blood agglutination:
Clumping of the transfused blood particles in the body of the recipient. This happens
when the blood groups of donor and recipient are incompatible. This coagulation mechanism differs
from the coagulation mechanism of agglutination.

Compatibility of the blood group:

Compatibility of Rhesus factor:


(Rh+ ) - If the Rhesus factor is present in one’s blood
(Rh- ) - if Rhesus factor is absent in one’s blood

Person with (Rh+ ) blood can receive both (Rh+ ) and (Rh- ) blood
Person with (Rh- ) blood can receive only (Rh-) blood
Then, types of blood,
A+ , A- , B+ , B- , AB+ , AB- , O+ , O –
Other qualifications a donor must fulfill according to the national Blood Transfer
Service/NBTS:
A donor has to complete the Blood Donor Declaration correctly and hand it over to the
NBTS before donating blood. Blood donor declaration and donation record is given in the extra
knowledge frame.

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