• Question: Do white blood cells reproduce when they die?

    Asked by SashaA \(^o^)/ to Sian, Max, Lizzie, Francis, Ben on 8 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Francis Man

      Francis Man answered on 8 Mar 2018:


      Once they die they can’t reproduce. Some of them never really reproduce, for example neutrophils don’t reproduce, but new ones are continuously produced from “earlier” cells (called progenitors).

    • Photo: Lizzie Wright

      Lizzie Wright answered on 10 Mar 2018:


      Yes, white blood cells don’t reproduce but new ones are constantly being made in the bone marrow.

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