Describe the nuclear and cytoplasmic morphologic changes in erythrocytes during maturation
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: As erythrocytes mature, the N:C ratios decrease progressively, the nucleus undergoes progressive chromatin clumping, the nucleus undergoes progressive decrease in size and is eventually extruded, and the cytoplasm begins as basophilic and progressively becomes acidophilic.
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