Chapter 6, Problem 4IC

Summary Introduction

To determine:

The ABO blood types, which are compatible.

Introduction:

Different persons have different blood groups. Blood groups were discovered by Karl Landsteiner in $1901$. There are four types of blood groups; AB, A, B, and O. All these contain different antigens on RBC (red blood cell) surface and different antibodies in the plasma, which are as follows:

Blood group	Antigen	Antibody
A	A	B
B	B	A
AB	Both A and B	None
O	None	Both A and B