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What is a inherited autosomal recessive disorder of the blood in which an individual's red blood cells are sickle-shaped rather than disk-shaped?

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Why are red blood cells disc shape?

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Is aninherited automal ressive disorder of the blood in which an individuals red blood cells are stckle shaped rather than disk shaped?

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How is the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood reduced by sickle-cell anaemia?

This occurs because a genetic mutation changes the shape of the red blood Cell from a normally flat disk to a curved or sickle shaped disk. This altered shape ends up restricting and reducing the normal passage - flow - of RBC's through the Capillaries.


What looks like red discs and has a pale center and no nucleus and similar in size?

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