plasma
Plasma is the liquid component of blood. This topic is part of Human Body within Science & Nature. This page currently draws on 16 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
plasma trivia questions
Blood plasma is mostly what?
Answer: Water
Bonus fact: Plasma is the liquid component of blood.
What does plasma transport around the body?
Answer: Nutrients, hormones, wastes, and proteins
Bonus fact: Many dissolved substances travel in plasma.
Which blood-clotting protein is dissolved in plasma before being converted into fibrin?
Answer: Fibrinogen
Bonus fact: Thrombin converts fibrinogen to fibrin during clotting.
What structure forms the fundamental barrier of the plasma membrane in animal cells?
Answer: Phospholipid bilayer
Bonus fact: Membrane proteins embedded in the bilayer perform functions such as selective transport and cell recognition.
In a plasma, what happens to some electrons that distinguishes plasma from an ordinary neutral gas?
Answer: They become free from atoms
Bonus fact: The remaining atoms become positively charged ions, so plasma contains ions and free electrons.
In physics, plasma is often described as which state of matter?
Answer: The fourth state of matter
Bonus fact: Plasma forms when a gas becomes ionized and contains free electrons and ions.
Which everyday natural phenomenon is made of plasma?
Answer: Lightning
Bonus fact: The intense electric field in a lightning channel ionizes air, briefly creating a hot plasma.
Why do magnetic fields strongly influence many plasmas?
Answer: Plasma contains charged particles
Bonus fact: The motion of charged particles couples plasma behavior to electric and magnetic fields, a key idea in fusion research and space physics.
Which type of white blood cell ultimately produces large amounts of antibodies?
Answer: Plasma cells
Bonus fact: Plasma cells develop from activated B lymphocytes.
A blood transfusion transfers blood or blood components into what?
Answer: A person's bloodstream
Bonus fact: Transfusions can replace red cells, platelets, or plasma.
What is the liquid part of blood called?
Answer: Plasma
Bonus fact: More than half of blood is plasma, which contains water, salts, and proteins.
What type of device is ITER?
Answer: Tokamak
Bonus fact: A tokamak uses powerful magnetic fields to confine extremely hot plasma in a torus-shaped chamber.