Blood Types Problem Set
Problem 6: Do we all have the same biological father?
Help to answer the question
| We were surfing the net for information on how to confirm blood types inherited from our parents. Your home page offered a lot of good, basic information, but since we are non-bio-science types, our understanding is dated back to high school. Could you offer a reference that would be helpful to figure out blood typing. We understand that a ABO matrix is part of it, and we expect it to be technically over our heads - but we're willing to try. Our basic question is: What is the blood type consistency of two parents who are O+ who have 8 children? 2 of 8 are reported to be O+ and O-. Does that seem to be likely?? --John |
Tutorial
Blood type
The parents are either O+/O+ or O+/O-. We really can't distinguish.
There are three possible crosses:It is very unlikely that the writer would be able to determine whether his parents are O+/O+ or O+/O-. The best answer to this question would be that, given no additional information, the children could be either O+ or O-. This is a very interesting situation, since any of the eight children that were not type O would have a different biological father. |
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