Sickle Cell Disease

What is the function of the plasma?

• Circulate blood cells
• regulate blood pressure
• maintain body temperature
• ALL CHOICES

What is the function of the platelets?

• Stop bleeding by clumping and clotting
• fight infection
• carry oxygen and carbon dioxide
• circulate blood cells

What is the function of the red blood cells?

• carry oxygen and carbon dioxide
• fight infection
• circulates cells and maintains blood pressure and body temperature
• stops bleeding by clumping and clotting

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NGSS.HS-LS1-7

What is the function of the red blood cells?

• carry oxygen and carbon dioxide
• fight infection
• circulates cells and maintains blood pressure and body temperature
• stops bleeding by clumping and clotting

What is the function of the white blood cells?

• carry oxygen and carbon dioxide
• protect against infection and foreign invaders
• circulates cells and maintains blood pressure and body temperature
• stops bleeding by clumping and clotting

True or False:  A patient can have anemia without having sickle cell disease.

• True
• False

What test is used to diagnose anemia?

• blood smear
• hematocrit
• autopsy
• centrifuge

Normal RBC

• A

• B

Which genotype represents a sickle cell carrier? (Remember it is recessive)

• SS
• ss
• Ss

Which genotype represents a patient that suffers from sickle cell disease? (it is recessive)

• ss
• Ss
• SS
• sy