AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Group AB can donate to other AB’s but can receive from all others. Group B can donate red blood cells to B’s and AB’s. Group A can donate red blood cells to A’s and AB’s. Group O can donate red blood cells to anybody.

Detailed explanation-2: -If a patient receives a blood type that is incompatible, antibodies that the patient already has in his or her blood will attack the donor red blood cells and destroy them.

Detailed explanation-3: -The blood type gene makes a protein that sits on the outside of our red blood cells. Most of this is pretty straightforward. Two O’s make O blood type and an A and a B make AB.

Detailed explanation-4: -The universal blood type for platelet transfusions is AB Negative (AB-). One of the rarest of all blood types, only 1% of the population has this special blood type.

Detailed explanation-5: -People with type A blood will react against type B or type AB blood. People with type B blood will react against type A or type AB blood. People with type O blood will react against type A, type B, or type AB blood. People with type AB blood will not react against type A, type B, type AB, or type O blood.