Shape and Size of Red Blood Cells Quiz

What is the average mean diameter of normal red blood cells?

Which protein is the most important structure that maintains the biconcave shape of the erythrocyte?

What does each gram of hemoglobin combine with if it is 100% saturated?

What is the approximate concentration of hemoglobin in red blood cells?

What causes hereditary spherocytosis?

What is the average volume of a red blood cell?

What is the normal percentage of hemoglobin in the whole blood for women?

What is the main component of plasma solutes?

Which protein in the blood is involved in creating colloid osmotic pressure?

What is the function of human serum albumin?

What is the deficiency called when there is a lack of albumin in the blood?

What creates colloid osmotic or oncotic pressure in the blood?

What does anemia refer to?

What is the major function of red blood cells (erythrocytes)?

What enzyme is found in red blood cells that catalyzes the reversible reaction between carbon dioxide and water?

Apart from transporting hemoglobin, what other function do red blood cells perform?

Which plasma proteins are involved in the transport of lipids, hemoglobin, iron, cortisol, and cobalamins?

What is the main role of albumin in the blood?

What percentage of hemoglobin leaks through the capillary membrane into tissue spaces or the glomerular filtrate?

Apart from proteins, what other components are present in human plasma?

Where are red blood cells initially produced during the early weeks of embryonic life?

In which organ are red blood cells produced exclusively during the last month of gestation and after birth?

At approximately what age does the marrow of most long bones become fatty and produce no more red blood cells?

What type of cell is responsible for producing all the cells of the circulating blood?

What is the abbreviation used to designate a committed stem cell that produces erythrocytes?

What happens to a small portion of multipotential hematopoietic stem cells as a person ages?

Where does the marrow of essentially all bones produce red blood cells until a person is about 5 years old?

Which protein promotes the growth and reproduction of virtually all different types of committed stem cells?

What is the function of differentiation inducers?

What causes the growth, differentiation, and production of greatly increased numbers of red blood cells?

What effect do infectious diseases have on white blood cells?

Which cell is the first to be identified as belonging to the red blood cell series?

What is the function of basophil erythroblasts?

What happens to the nucleus in the later stages of red blood cell formation?

What causes the formation of large numbers of red blood cells from CFU-E stem cells?