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7.Human Health and Disease

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Which organ is considered as "Graveyard of $RBC$'' where most of them are destroyed by macrophages

A

Red bone marrow

B

Spleen

C

Kidney

D

Intestine

(AIPMT-1989)

Solution

(b) Old $RBCs $ are destroyed along with pathogens by phagocytosis carried out by macrophages. Thus, spleen acts as graveyard of $RBCs.$

Standard 12

Biology

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