Match the following characteristics with the appropriate stage of maturing erythrocytes:

a. Erythrocyte
b. Pronormoblast
c. Polychromatophilic normoblast
d. Reticulocyte
e. Basophilic normoblast
f. Orthochromic normoblast

_____ Earliest morphologically recognizable erythrocytic cell
_____ First visible appearance of hemoglobin
_____ Stage when the nucleus becomes pyknotic and is extruded
_____ First stage without a nucleus
_____ First stage without ribosomes
_____ Last stage capable of mitosis


Answer: b, e, f, d, a, c

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