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Watch a video about blood cell formation. Complete the note below. Write NO MORE
THAN TWO WORDS for each question.
What I should know about sickle-cells:
1. Sickle-cells ________________ the red blood cells.
2. In sickle-cells disease a ________________ mutation alters the structure of
_________.
3. Rods of hemoglobin cause the cell to _____________ a long, pointed sickle.

4. The red blood cells become _________ and ________, and no longer
____________ through blood vessels.
5. Sickle vessel can snag up and ________ the vessel completely.
6. It blocks the oxygen from _________ a variety of cells, causing ____________ range of symptoms.
Watch a video about the effect of a sickle cell formation to our body. Decide whether the
followinng statements are True or False.

The repeated episodes of stabbing pain in oxygen-starved tissue are started when patient is over (T/F)
one year old.
Where the clogged vessel exists determine the symptoms suffered by the patients. (T/F)
The dangerous infection happens because of the blockage in the spleen. (T/F)

There are two impacts of the pile up of sickle cells that takes place in the lungs. (T/F)
A clog near the eye will cause vision problems. (T/F)
The stroke may happen if the obstructed vessels supply the brain. (T/F)

Watch the video about sickle cell anemia. Arrange the blood cell formation of anemia into right
order.

It still happens in Africa.
Malaria uses red blood cells an incubator.

1 Sickle cells anemia start from the Malaria disease.
The normal red blood cells change into rod blocks.

It spread quickly and lethally through bloodstream.
The rod blocks then change into sickle cell.

The sickle cells are then change into what we know today as sickle cell anemia.

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