Question

playing Rita got injured and there was bleeding from her knee. But after sometime bleeding got stopped and there was a formation of red coloured clot at the point of injury. Can you tell who helped in clotting?​

Answer 1

The platelets helped in clotting.

Explanation:

• As soon as an injury is caused and blood starts to flow from the injury site, the platelets for a plug on the site to stop bleeding. This process of plug formation is termed as primary hemostasis.

• After this, different clotting factors cause the blood to coagulate and the injury to heal with the passage of time.

• There are numerous different clotting factors such as fibrinogen which is also called as Factor I.