Red Blood Cells
- Describe its structural characteristics (shape, size, location, etc.). Does it have all the same organelles of the typical eukaryotic cell? Red Blood play a huge role in the human body. For example red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the body. It's the oxygen that gives the blood its defining red color. The shape of a red blood cell is almost like a donut. Red Blood cells are also 6-8 µm and are located through out the body in the vessels and veins of the body. Blood cells do have the same organelles of typical eukaryotic cells too.
- Describe its function. What does it specialize in? Hemoglobin, the protein inside red blood cells carries oxygen throughout your body. Red blood cells also remove carbon dioxide from your body, by transporting it into the lungs for you to exhale. Also a cool fact about Red blood cells is that they are made inside your bones, in the bone marrow and typically live for about 120 days.
- Find pictures/diagrams of this cell.
- What kind of tissue is this classified as? Red Blood cells are defined as connective tissue
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