| A | B |
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| What are red blood cells? | Cells which carry oxygen |
| White blood cells | Cells which fight disease |
| Platelets | Help blood to clot |
| Plasma | Carries carbon dioxide, glucose and urea |
| Amino acids | Dissolved in plasma and used to make proteins |
| Glucose | Dissolved in the plasma. A good energy source |
| Straw colored | The color of plasma |
| Antibodies | Proteins made by white blood cells to attack bacteria |
| Digest | What white blood cells do to bacteria after engulfing them |
| Clot | Platelets and red blood cells caught in a network of protein fibers |
| Hemoglobin | Fills the red blood cell |
| Nucleus | Missing from red blood cells to make room for haemoglobin |
| Clotting factors | Help the blood to clot |
| Collagen fibers | In the tissue that begin the clotting process |
| Fibrin | Strands of blood borne material that stick togeter and seal the inside of a wound. |
| How much blood is in an adult? | About 5 to 6 liters |
| What is blood made up up? | 50% plasma, 48%red blood cells, 2% white blood cells and platelets |
| Diffuse | nutrients and oxygen move from the red blood cells through the wall of the capillary into the tissue as carbon dioxide and waste products move from the cell through the walls of the capillaries. |
