Virtual Blood Typing Lab Name Date: Hr:

[Pages:3]Virtual Blood Typing Lab Name _______________________________________________Date:_____________Hr:______

Read the information on the following link:

Complete the charts and questions below:

Blood Type Genotype (Phenotype)

Can donate blood to:

Can receive blood from:

O

ii

AB

IAIB

A,B,AB and O (universal donor)

AB

A

IAIA or IAi

B

IBIB or IBi

Write the genotype (letters) for each person based on the description: Homozygous for the "B" allele Heterozygous for the "A" allele Type O Type "AB" Blood can be donated to anybody Can only get blood from a type "O" donor

Visit the following website: You will see the following screen--read the instructions, then click play!

Play the Blood Typing Game

Blood Typing

In this game you have to blood type each patient and give them a blood transfusion. Are you able to do that? If not, maybe you should read the introduction to blood typing before you start, otherwise you will put the patients' lives in danger!

Introduction: Blood Groups, Blood Typing and Blood Transfusions ? Play the Blood Typing Game

You must play the game until you receive 5 blood drops at your doctor party.

Get the teacher's signature upon successful completion!

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Answer the following questions:

1) Why is important to know one's blood type?

2) Why shouldn't an Rh+ person donate blood to an Rh- person?

3) Which blood type can receive all types of blood? ___________

4) Which blood type can donate to all types of blood? __________

5) Exlapin how human blood types fit the definition for multiple alleles and codominance. (You may need your ppt notes or book for this answer.)

6) Pretend that Brad Pitt is homozygous for the type B allele, and Angelina Jolie is

type "O." What are all the possible blood types of their babies?

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7) Draw a Punnett square showing all the possible blood types for the offspring produced by a type "O" mother and an a Type "AB" father

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8) Two parents think their baby was switched at the hospital. It is 1968, so DNA

fingerprinting technology does not exist yet. The mother has blood type "O," the father has blood type "AB," and the baby's genotype for blood is IBIB.

a. Mother's genotype: __________

b. Father's genotype: __________

c. Baby's genotype: ________

d. Draw a Punnett square showing all possible genotypes for children produced

by this couple:

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e. Was the baby switched?________________

9) Based on the information in this table, which man/men could be the father of the

baby? Justify your answer with a Punnett square.

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Name

Mother

Baby Father A Father B Father C Father D

Blood Type

Type A

Type B Type O Type AB Type A Type B

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