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Honors Biology: ABO Blood Types Lab
How do Mendel’s Laws of inheritance explain how traits are passed from one generation to the next?
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PART 1
DIRECTIONS: Using your textbook (Section 9.12) and the following website:
http://nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/landsteiner/
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Do the reading under the “Blood Typing” Section…answer the following questions:
1. What are the different alleles involved in determining blood types?.
2. Using these alleles, how many phenotypes are possible (list them)? How many genotypes are
possible (list them)?
3. Which allele(s) are dominant? Which are recessive?.
4. What are antigens and antibodies? Why are they important when giving a blood transfusion?
5. Which blood type is the most widespread throughout the world?
6. How is a person’s blood type determined?
7. What is the Rh factor? Is this gene linked to the ABO alleles, or is it inherited independently?
8. What is meant by agglutination? What causes it?
9. What is meant by the phrases “universal donor” and “universal receiver”? What determines what
blood type a patient can receive?
10. Play the Blood Typing Game. …try not to kill anyone!
PART 2
DIRECTIONS: Flow the instructions on the “NeoSCI Activity 1: The Genetics of ABO Blood Types” sheets.
Be sure to perform the mixing carefully and record your observations. Use these observations to solve the
paternal mystery! You may wish to use the space below to construct any necessary Punnett squares.