Blood-borne platelets are derived from which type of bone marrow cell?
a. Eosinophilic myelocytes
b. Macrophages
c. Megakaryocytes
d. Normoblasts
e. Polychromatophilic erythroblasts
ANS: C
The extensive cytoplasm of huge megakaryocytes becomes fragmented into platelets.
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