KIN 2500 Chapter : Chapter 12 SI Worksheet
15 Mar 2019
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Si: matthew landry mland84@lsu. edu: blood the heart. Components of blood: blood is composed of 2 main components: 8. 5: most of these solutes are proteins. Responsible for colloid osmotic pressure, major contributors to blood viscosity, transport hormones, fatty acids, and calcium, help regulate blood ph. Immunoglobulins help attack viruses and bacteria, alpha and beta globulins transport iron, lipids, and fat-soluble vitamins. T and b lymphocytes and natural killer cells. Formation of blood cells: what is hemapoiesis?- the process by which the formed elements of blood develop. In the fetus?- liver, spleen, thymus, and lymph nodes. No: each rbc contains about 280 million hemoglobin molecules. Each hemoglobin molecule can carry up to __4____ oxygen molecules: a hemoglobin molecules consists of a protein called. Which is composed of four polypeptide chains plus for nonprotein pigments called __hemes_____: at the center of each heme ring is an __iron ion_______ that can combine reversibly with- one oxygen molecule.
