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>1.5 Blood Exercise 1.5B Functions of blood

components
Exercise 1.5A The components of blood
Practice
Focus In this exercise, you w山"think about suitable words to complete
sentences about blood.
In this exercise, you will think about the three components that make
up blood. Choose the best words to complete the sentences.

Human blood has three components: antibodies llllllllllllllllll bacteria

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dioxide
llllllllllllllllll cytoplasm
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• plasma glucose haemoglobin least llllllllllllllllll
like nucleus
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• red blood cells most oxygen plasma unlike
llllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllll
• white blood cells.
Blood contains a pale yellow liquid, called plasma
1 Which of these three components is a liquid?
This liquid carries red blood cells and white blood cells around the body.
plasma
It also transports several different substances in solution, including
2 Which of these three components has nuclei? carbon dioxide
glucose

white blood cell

Red blood cells are the most abundant cells in the blood.
Which component performs each of these functions?
Their function is to transport oxygen from the lungs to all
a transporting oxygen from the lungs to all the respiring cells in
the cells in the body that are respiring. To help them to do this, they
the body
contain a red pigment called haemoglobin
red blood cell
White blood cells, unlike red blood cells, contain a nucleus.
protecting against pathogens that have got into the body
Their function is to destroy pathogens, such as bacteria , that
white blood cell
get into the body. Some of them do this by producing chemicals called
transporting blood cells, nutrients and carbon dioxide antibodies ,which attach themselves to the pathogens and kill
plasma them. Other white blood cells kill pathogens by taking them into
their cytoplasm and digesting them.