Blood Types

1. What are the four blood types? The four blood types are A, B, AB, and O.
2. O+ is the ost common blood type
3. What does it mean if you have blood type B? Blood type O? If you have blood type B it means you only have type B antigen. If you have blood type O it means you have neither A or B antigens.
4. Blood type O is considered the universal donor. What does "universal donor" mean? Universal donor means that you can donate blood to any blood type, but you can only receive O blood type.
5. Blood type AB is considered the universal recipient. what does "universal recipient" mean? Universal recipient means that you can receive any blood type, but you can only give to blood type AB.
6. What percentage of African Americans have blood type O+? 47% of African Americans have blood type O+.
7. Which racial group has 0.2% of its population with blood type AB-? 0.2% of Latinos have blood type AB-.
8. True or False--- Blood type is passed genetically from parents to children. It is TRUE that blood type is passed genetically from parents to their children.
9. If both parents have blood type B, what are the two possible blood types of their children? If both parents have blood type B, their children have a possiblilty of being blood type O or B.
10. If one parent has blood type A and the other has blood type B, what are the posible blood types of their children? If one parent has blood type B and the other has blood type A their children could have blood type O, A, B, or AB.
11. What does it mean when a person has Rh positive? Rh negative? When a person is Rh+ their blood cells have protein on the surface of their reed blood cells. If it's Rh- they don't have that protein.