Blood Groups & Multiple Alleles 🩸

Question 1

What can occur when a patient receives a blood transfusion that isn’t compatible with his/her blood type

Answer 1

Agglutination- clumping together of red blood cells

Question 2

What are the four blood types?

Answer 2

A, B, AB, O

Question 3

To have blood-group O what genotype would you have

Answer 3

I^o and I^o

Question 4

To have blood-group A what genotype would you have

Answer 4

I^a & I^a OR I^a & I^o

Question 5

To have blood group B what genotype would you have

Answer 5

I^b & I^b OR I^b & I^o

Question 6

To have blood-group AB what genotype would you have

Answer 6

I^a & I^b

Question 7

The alleles for blood group AB are CODOMINANT, explain what is meant by this term

Answer 7

They have an equal effect (they both code for the production of a functioning protein)
however both I^a & I^b are dominant to I^o