Red blood cells are also called erythrocytes.
What are the organelles found in the cell?
A plasma membrane and hemoglobin are found in red blood cells.
List the structural features of the cell.
They are biconcave discs, having a depressed center on both sides. These depressed centers allow the cells to have more cell membrane surface which can be exposed to diffusing oxygen while transiting the lungs. This structure also allows them to be more flexible with the ability to twist and bend through the blood vessels.
What are the functions of these organelles?
Red blood cells carry oxygen to all the tissues from the lungs. The red blood cells then transport the carbon dioxide from the tissues back to the lungs.
Why are these functions of the organelles important to the living cell?
The red blood cells carry oxygen to parts of our body. This enables us to carry out life processes. If oxygen is not transported around our body, we will lack of oxygen and die.
Sources:
Information: http://web.buddyproject.org/web019/web019/blood.html
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I did not know that the red blood cell had another name called as, "erythrocytes", but now i know that there is another term for red blood cell
ReplyDeleteI did not know A plasma membrane and hemoglobin are found in red blood cells.
ReplyDeleteI did not know This structure also allows them to be more flexible with the ability to twist and bend through the blood vessels.
ReplyDeleteI did not know that red blood cells are called erythrocytes.
ReplyDeleteI did not know that anything can be in the red blood cell,as it just look like some circular red thing
ReplyDeleteI never knew that red blood cells have another name.
ReplyDeleteWhich is: Erythrocytes
I didn't know that they have a plasma membrane.....
ReplyDeleteI did not know that they are biconcave discs, having a depressed center on both sides and Red blood cells are also called erythrocytes.
ReplyDeletei did not know that red blood cells are biconcave discs which has a depressed center on both sides.
ReplyDeleteI did not know that red blood cells are also called erythrocytes.
ReplyDeleteNow I know that the red blood cell depressed center on either side is to allow the cells to have more cell membrane surface which can be exposed to diffusing oxygen while transiting the lungs.
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ReplyDeletebiconcave discs? wow that's some interesting shape! Never knew there are such possible cell shapes
ReplyDeleteI did not know that the depressed centers of the red blood cells allow the cells to have more cell membrane surface which can be exposed to diffusing oxygen while transiting the lungs.
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