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Mind Map by Aarushi Pandit, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Aarushi Pandit
almost 9 years ago
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White Blood Cell (WBC)
- Leucocytes
- made in the
bone marrow
- have a nucleus
- generally larger
than RBCs
- either spherical or
irregular in shape
- main function
- fight against diseases
- fight against diseases
- two main groups
- Phagocytes
- protect the body by
ingesting (phagocytosis)
harmful foreign
particles, bacteria, and
dead or dying cells.
- neutrophils
- short-lived
- 60% of total WBC
- short-lived
- macrophages
- long-lived
- Develop from monocytes
- long-lived
- protect the body by
ingesting (phagocytosis)
harmful foreign
particles, bacteria, and
dead or dying cells.
- Lymphocytes
- smaller than
phagocytes
- Of two types
- B cells
- plasma cells
- antibodies
Annotations:
- diagram on right
- antibodies
- memory cells
- plasma cells
- T cells
- killer T cells
- helper T cells
- killer T cells
- B cells
- large
nucleus,
- fills up most of the cell
- fills up most of the cell
- smaller than
phagocytes
- Phagocytes
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