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Genetics Blood Types (Bio2) PDF

The document discusses blood types and genetics. It explains that blood type is controlled by three alleles - A, B, and O. The A and B alleles are codominant while O is recessive. It then provides several genetics problems involving blood types and asks the reader to determine possible genotypes and proportions of offspring with different blood types from given parental genotypes.

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Genetics Blood Types (Bio2) PDF

The document discusses blood types and genetics. It explains that blood type is controlled by three alleles - A, B, and O. The A and B alleles are codominant while O is recessive. It then provides several genetics problems involving blood types and asks the reader to determine possible genotypes and proportions of offspring with different blood types from given parental genotypes.

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Name _____________________________________________

Genetics: Blood Types


Blood Type is controlled by 3 alleles: A, B, O. A & B are codominant, O is recessive.

1. a) What are the two genotypes possible for a person who as A blood? _________

b) What genotype does a person with AB blood have? ________

c ) What genotype does a person with O blood have? _________

d) What are the two genotypes possible for a person who as B blood? ________

2. A man with type AB blood is married to a woman also with type AB blood.

What proportion of their children will have: Show the cross:

A blood? _______

B blood? ______

O blood _____

AB blood ______

3. A man has type B blood (genotype BB) is married to a woman with type O blood. Show the cross:

What proportion of their children will have:

A blood? _______

B blood? ______

O blood _____

AB blood ______

4. A woman with type A blood (genotype AO) is married to a type B person (genotype BO). Show the cross

What proportion of their children will have:

A blood? _______

B blood? ______

O blood _____

AB blood ______
5. A woman with type A blood is claiming that a man with type
AB blood is the father of her child who is type B.

Show ALL the possible crosses; remember that the woman


can have AA or AO genotypes.

Could this man be the father of the child? ____________

Assuming that he is the father, what must the mother’s genotype be? _____

6. A man with type AB blood is married to a woman with type O blood.

They have two natural children and one adopted child.


Jane has type A blood, Jordan has type B blood, and Marlin has type O blood.

Which child was adopted? ____________________

How do you know?

7. A woman is searching for her father and she has type O blood. She looks through records of
men who could be her father. Which blood type can she eliminate from her search? (In other
words, her dad CANNOT be what blood type.) Explain how you know this.

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