🩸 BLOOD: WHAT'S IN IT?
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BLOOD IS A TEAM SPORT
Blood looks like one red liquid, but it is a mixture of parts working together. Plasma is the watery fluid that carries everything. Red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets float inside it. Each part has a special job for your body. Your heart pumps this mixture through tubes called blood vessels. Without blood, oxygen and waste could not travel where they need to go.
⚡ DID YOU KNOW?
Plasma is mostly water, with salts, proteins, and nutrients dissolved in it. It makes up the biggest share of your blood volume.
FLOW!
PLASMA
💧 Plasma is mostly water and acts like a delivery truck for cells and chemicals.
🚚 It also carries waste products to organs that clean your blood.
🚚 It also carries waste products to organs that clean your blood.
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🔬 A drop of blood holds huge numbers of tiny cells, far more than you can count by eye.
🫀 Your bone marrow makes new blood cells all the time to replace old ones.
🫀 Your bone marrow makes new blood cells all the time to replace old ones.