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Blood
(micro-teaching assignment) Click to edit Master subtitle style by Matthew Catania

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What is blood?

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In groups list the different components you think human blood is made up of?

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Blood composition

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What are the main bodily functions of blood?

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The role of blood in humans

Supply of oxygen to tissues. Supply of nutrients (e.g. glucose, amino acids and fatty acids Removal of wastes products from tissues (e.g. lactic acid, CO2) Defence against disease Regulation of body temperature and pH Blood clotting to prevent continuous bleeding

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How is blood transported around the body?

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Blood is pumped through blood vessels throughout the

human body by the heart.

There are three types of blood vessels:

1) arteries have thick and elastic muscular walls 2) veins have thinner walls and valves 3) capillariesmost numerous and smallest blood vessels

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Learning activity: Link up the following

Platelets White blood cells Red blood cells Serum Fibrinogen Plasma Arteries Veins Capillaries Carry blood to the heart Carry blood away from the heart Carries materials such as

oxygen and nutrients to the cells and mostly water and contains It is remove waste products such as carbon dioxide dissolved proteins, glucose, clotting factors, mineral Carries oxygen and carbon dioxide ions, hormones and carbon dioxide Destroys and removes old or aberrant cells and cellular debris as well asprotein infectious in A soluble attack that results agents and foreign substances blood coagulation Plasma where clotting proteins have been removed Are cell fragments that aid in the clotting of blood

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Learning activity: Link up the following

Platelets White blood cells Red blood cells Serum Fibrinogen Plasma Arteries Veins Capillaries Carry blood to the heart Carry blood away from the heart Carries materials such as

oxygen and nutrients to the cells and mostly water and contains It is remove waste products such as carbon dioxide dissolved proteins, glucose, clotting factors, mineral Carries oxygen and carbon dioxide ions, hormones and carbon dioxide Destroys and removes old or aberrant cells and cellular debris as well asprotein infectious in A soluble attack that results agents and foreign substances blood coagulation Plasma where clotting proteins have been removed Are cell fragments that aid in the clotting of blood