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pizza1512

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Production of red blood cells
« on: March 14, 2007, 03:32:16 AM »
How does the body produce red blood cells?  Unlike the other cells in the body they do not contain a nucleus so surely they can not be produced by meiosis or by mitosis.
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Re: Production of red blood cells
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2007, 08:05:16 PM »
The process is called erythropoiesis I believe. It occurs in the bone marrow. You may want to try a web search of erythropoiesis.
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