Assignment Sheet, Blood Grouping
Assignment Sheet, Blood Grouping
Blood Grouping
A blood? _______
B blood? _______
O blood? _______
AB blood? _______
2. A man with type AB blood is married to a woman also with type AB blood. Show the cross. What proportion
of their children will have?
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? How? 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.