1 red blood cells, which carry oxygen throughout the body. 2  white blood cells, which fight infections. 3  platelets, which are cells that help you stop bleeding if you get a cut.  plasma, a yellowish liquid that carries nutrients, hormones, and proteins throughout the body.
Alligator, Mississippi. Alligator is a town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 208 at the 2010 census. In 2009, Tommie Tomaso Brown was elected Alligator's first black mayor. He defeated Robert Fava, the mayor since 1979.
The largest alligator population lives in the state of Louisiana, and they are found in marshy areas of other states such as Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Alligators live in freshwater and brackish swamps and marshes. Other than the rare Chinese Alligator, which lives on the Yangtze River, alligators are native to the southeastern United States. They are different in several ways from the related crocodilians known as crocodiles.