• Question: how did people discover that the human body has red blood cells

    Asked by 584curm38 to Fiona, Hazel, Jacque, K on 16 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Fiona Macfarlane

      Fiona Macfarlane answered on 16 Mar 2018:


      I didn’t know this, but I had a look online. Apparently red blood cells themselves were discover by looking at the blood of frogs in a microscope around the year 1658. They were able to see ‘red particles’ in the blood, which turned out to be the red blood cells

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