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Transports nutrients, wastes, and body heat.
Oxygen-rich blood is scarlet red; oxygen-poor blood is dull red.
Approximately 55%.
Between 7.35 and 7.45.
Regulates osmotic pressure and acts as a blood buffer.
Red blood cells that carry oxygen.
Transports the bulk of oxygen in the blood.
Anemia.
An excessive increase in the number of erythrocytes.
Erythrocytes, leukocytes, and platelets.
Blood is about 5 times thicker than water.
4.0 to 5.9 x10*12/L.
Slightly higher, around 38 degrees C.
Water, nutrients, salts, gases, hormones, proteins, and waste.
Leukocytes are spherical; erythrocytes are disc-shaped.
Allows each molecule to transport four oxygen molecules.