Blood

[winsperk]

If my mother's blood group is AB and my father's blood group is B, what blood group should I be ?

[stevie21]

You have pairs of chromosomes so your mother has an "A" on one and a "B" on the other. She donates one of these to you.
Your Dad has a "B" on each chromosome and donates one of these.

This means that you'd either be AB or B
(which is actually BB)

[sod_the_m25]

If mum is AB, and dad is BO, doesn't this allow AO as a possibility, so you could be A (AO), AB, or B (BB/BO).

[MargeB]

abba

[MargeB]

oh sorry, blood group...

[silly moo]

I think O is a dominant gene, so dad can't be BO.
If there is an O it always takes precedence.
Sorry ignore that and look here.

http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/B /BloodGroups.html

[gen2]

No, O is recessive.
sod_the_m25 is correct, you could be A, B or AB (but not O)

[janesmythe22]

winsperk, what does it have with 'art and literature'?

[georgit79]

Basically, if you're 'O', you'd better be asking the milkman a few questions...

[tubeway]

and then there is the rhesus factors.....

[Gnisy]

Mother's blood being AB and father's blood being B.. that would mean ... *flips abascus*... the kids can end up being of AB blood, B blood and A blood. No possibility of O, unless you involve foul play (sic).

If partner 1#'s blood is of A group and partner 2#'s blood is of B, there is a possibility of getting all four blood groups. I bet that caused a lot of riots in households when they haven't figured out the blood groups