What are some advantage of having sickle cell anemia?

Answer 1

platelets are carried in our body system in the blood along with Red blood cells, white blood cells and plasma, these platelets are very important for body, if you sustain a cut on yourself these platelets will cause the blood to make a clot. This is where you have scabs where the blood has clotted to stop blood escaping from the body. This is important now that if you have a small amount of platelets you can be diagnosed with an illness called haemophilia this is when you blood doesn't clot. So if you cut your self you will be sent to hospital to have platelets injected to cause the bleeding to stop as you will continuely bleed.

Answer 2

the sickle cell really has no function it's shaped like a crescent moon and causes blood clots easily. It's most commonly found in African Americans and people with African American heritage and is inherited. It can be deadly and to the best of my knowledge it has no cure, I believe that blood transfusions are used to help.

Answer 3

due to the sickel shape of the rbcs they obstuct the small blood vessels and cause ischemia .. whereas in normal due to the biconcave nature of rbc they squeeze through the small blood vessels

Answer 4

They are important because they tell doctors that there was a corruption in your amino acid sequence.

Answer 5

advantages of having sickle cell is that one never gets malaria.Although i think i would rather get malaria than sc.

Answer 6

it prevents you from getting sick or developing malaria