How to solve ABO blood group problems

The most well-known and medically important blood types are in the ABO click this icon to hear the preceding term pronounced group. They were discovered in 1900 and 1901 at the University of Vienna by Karl Landsteiner in the process of trying to learn why blood transfusions sometimes cause death and at other times save a patient. In 1930, he belatedly received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of blood types. All humans and many other primates can be typed for the ABO blood group. There are four principal types: A, B, AB, and O. There are two antigens and two antibodies that are mostly responsible for the ABO types. The specific combination of these four components determines an individual’s type in most cases. The table below shows the possible permutations of antigens and antibodies with the corresponding ABO type (“yes“ indicates the presence of a component and “no“ indicates its absence in the blood of an individual). #bloodTypes #ABO #KarlLandsteiner #aboBloodGroup #Genetics #geneticCode #molecularBiology #chromosome #alleles #genes #geneExpression #genotype #GeneticExamQuestionsSolutions #GeneticsExamQuestionsSolutions #DNA #GeneticsLecture #gene #pedigreeAnalysisGenetics #pedigreeAnalysisProbability #pedigreeAnalysisAnswers #pedigree #pedigreeCharts #HowToSolvePedigreeProblems #solvePedigreeProblems #solvingPedigreeProblems #pedigreeProblemsAndSolutions