Blood Typing: Purpose, Procedure, and Risks

blood group  Individuals with type A blood—without any prior exposure to incompatible blood—have preformed antibodies to the B antigen circulating in their blood plasma  Like eye color, blood type is passed genetically from your parents Your blood type is determined by your ABO type and a negative or

Blood groups are antigenic determinants on the surface of blood cells, but the use of the term is generally restricted to antigens on red blood cells A blood The Different Blood Types · Group A has the A · Group B has the B antigen and the A antibody · Group AB has A and B antigens but neither A nor

The ABO blood group antigens are encoded by one genetic locus, the ABO locus, which has three alternative forms—A, B, and O A child receives one of The combination of these two systems give us the eight commonly-known blood types: A+, A-, B+, B-, O+, O-, AB+, AB- Knowing the right blood type to give a