1. Which hemopoietic growth factor regulates differentiation and proliferation of red blood cell precursors? 2. How might your hematocrit change if you moved from a town at sea level to a high mountain village? 3. What is the function of transferrin? 4. In what way is the "traffic pattern" of lymphocytes in the body different from that of other WBCs? 5. What is a differential white blood cell count? 6. How are cord-blood transplants and bone marrow transplants similar? How do they differ? 7. Which three mechanisms contribute to hemostasis? 8. Why is the firstborn baby unlikely to have hemolytic disease of the newborn? 9. What is hemolysis, and how can it occur after a mismatched blood transfusion? 10. Mrs. Brown is in renal failure. Her recent blood tests indicated a hematocrit of 22 . Why is her hematocrit low? What can she be given to raise her hematocrit? .