Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781337408332
Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Concept introduction: Platelets or thrombocytes are one of the major components of blood, which are meant to react to bleeding from any blood vessels by the formation of clumps. They are actually the fragments of cytoplasm circulating in the blood, derived from bone marrow. A range of 150,000 to 450,000 per micro liter is the normal count of platelets in blood.

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