Blood Type Problems

If a red blood cell has no antigens on its surface, what is its blood type?

• A

• B

• AB

• O

Someone with type A blood can receive blood from someone who is type AB.

• True

• False

If one of your parents is blood type A and the other is type B and both are heterozygous, which of the following blood types would you likely be?

• O

• AB

• A or B

• All of those are equally likely

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If one parent is heterozygous for type A blood and the other parent is homozygous for type B blood, what is the probability they could have a child with type B blood?

• 0%

• 25%

• 50%

• 100%

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Which blood types can be given to someone with type A blood?

CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY!

• Type A

• Type B

• Type AB

• Type O

Which blood types can be given to someone with type O blood? CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY!

• Type A

• Type B

• Type AB

• Type O

The A and B alleles in human blood types are ___________ to each other.

• codominant

• homozygous

• completely dominant

• recessive

A woman with blood type B, whose father had blood type O, marries a man with blood type O. What are the odds they have a child with blood type B?

• 0%

• 25%

• 50%

• 100%

• 75%

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What are the blood types of the possible children that a woman (type O) and man (type AB) can have?

• O and AB

• O and A

• O and B

• A and B

There are multiple alleles for the ABO blood group. Why are only two of these alleles present in any one individual?

• Each parent contributes only one allele for the ABO blood group to the offspring.

• There are not enough nucleotides in a red blood cell to produce a third allele.

• Each allele in the ABO group must be dominant or recessive

• Blood group alleles are not segregated during meiosis.

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