Blood Type Genetics On the Computers Day 1

Today's daily question was a way for me to see if you got the information yesterday regarding blood types and the immunology behind it.

Wednesday March 28^th

If you have type O blood – what proteins are found on the outside of your red blood cells?  None

What antibodies are found in your blood plasma? Anti A and Anti B

If you have type O blood, give me TWO possible SETs of genotypes that your parents could have.

You know that each parent has to at least have ONE “i” in their genotype so here are two possible sets

I^ai x I^bi   or    ii x I^bI^a

If you have type B blood – what proteins are found on the outside of your RBCs? B “antigens”

What antibodies are found in your blood plasma? Anti A

Who could you receive blood from? Type A or Type O

We then started into our blood typing activity.  Again this is the link.

Blood Typing Game

Today we focused just on the "mission based" game.  This took you through a couple scenarios where you had to blood type people and then determine what kind of blood they could receive in a transfusion.  Tomorrow we will then go through 3 different patients and determine their phenotype, genotype, and who they can receive blood from.