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Blood Typing Online Activity
GO to Website: http://nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/landsteiner/readmore.html
Read and answer the following questions. Then click on the link at the bottom of page to
play the blood typing game.
Blood Groups, Blood Typing and Transfusions
Discovery of Blood groups
1. When were blood groups first discovered?
2. Who first described blood groups?
3. If you mix 2 bloods together what can happen?
4. What does the term agglutination mean?
5. If agglutination occurs within our blood vessels what happens to you?
6. Blood clumps when the receiver of blood has ________________ against the
donor cells.
7. What did Landsteiner receive in 1930 for his work?
What is Blood made of?
1. How many liters of blood does an adult human have?
2. What does blood carry?
3. Complete the chart below:
Name of the blood constituent
4. What does Plasma contain?
Function
What are the different Blood Groups?
1. The difference in human blood is due to the presence of ________________
2. Where are Antigens found?
3. Where are Antibodies found?
4. What does your blood group depend upon?
ABO Blood Grouping System
Complete the chart below:
Name of blood type
Antigens
Antibodies
Rh+
RhBlood Group Notation:
Do you know what type of blood group you belong to?
Blood Typing: How do you find out to which blood group someone belongs
Basically, how does one determine blood types?
What is happening when the blood clumps or agglutinates?
Besides the obvious, why is it a bad thing when agglutinated RBC crack and leak into the
body?
Blood Transfusions- Who can receive blood from whom?
1. Who is the universal donor?
2. Who is the universal recipient?
3. Can O give to A?
4. Can AB give to A?
5. Can B give to AB?
*NOW IT’S TIME TO PLAY THE GAME. CLICK ON THE HYPERLINK AT THE
BOTTOM OF THE PAGE.
HELPFUL HINTS:
1. Take some blood from the patient and determine the blood type of the patient
2. If the blood clumps to the antibody, then the patient has this blood type.
DATA for the game
-What is the girl’s blood type?
-What is the old man’s blood type?
-What is the cool dude’s blood type?