BLOOD TYPING WEBQUEST
Navigate to the website below. Answer on a separate sheet of paper.
http://nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/landsteiner/readmore.html
1. When did blood transfusions become safer, and why?
2. What can happen if you give someone a transfusion of the wrong blood?
3. List the four parts of blood and give their function in your OWN words.
A.
B.
C.
D.
4. How is an antigen different from an antibody?
5.
Blood Type
A
B
AB
O
Antigens present
Antibodies present
6. Draw/Find a picture showing the red blood cell (including all antigens) and any antibodies of a person
with A+ blood. Draw/Find another showing what an O- person’s RBC’s and antibodies would look like.
7. If you see agglutination occurring when you are testing someone’s blood type, what does that tell you?
8. List a few problems that can occur because of agglutination if you gave someone the wrong blood type
in a transfusion.
9. What kinds of blood can an A- person RECEIVE?
At the bottom of the page, click on play the blood typing game (quick version-fixed). Click “play” on the next
page. Click on a patient to select. Draw some blood from the patient using the syringe, then test it using the
reagents at right. Scroll over to see any agglutination.
Fill in the chart below to indicate the patient that came into the emergency room, what blood type they
had and which blood you selected for the transfusion.
Description of Patient
Patient’s Blood Type
Blood Type Given In
Transfusion
10. Were there any patients who could have received more than one type of blood? If so, which and what other
types could have been used besides the type you chose? _________
________________________________________________________________________
11. Besides blood type, what other information might a doctor need to know before giving a patient a blood
transfusion? _______________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
PART 2
Begin by navigating to http://www.biology.arizona.edu/ . Select the “Human Biology” link in the upper left
hand corner under “Activities”. Click on “Blood Types” to begin.
Read the introduction carefully. The monohybrid cross tutorials (click on problems 11 & 13 before you move
on) are essential reading at this point. Once you have studied this material completely, click on the “ABO
markers” button to see the next page.
Read the "The Human ABO markers: The A, B, and O alleles tutorial page." If you know your own blood type,
write that here __________. (Put AB if you do not know your own.)
Click on the “Blood Types/Genotypes” button to continue.
Read the “How are blood types related to the six genotypes?” page.
What are all of your possible genotypes, based on the blood type you listed above?
______________________________________________________________________________
What are your parent’s possible genotypes?___________________________________________
Click on the “Alleles Inherited” button to continue.
Read the “How are ABO alleles inherited by our children?” page carefully. Using the blood type calculator,
check to see if you were correct about the blood types of your parents. Now hook up with another person and
use the second calculator to see what the possible blood types of your children would be. Write your blood
types and your children’s possible types
here:__________________________________________________________________________
Now click on the “Rh Factor” button to continue.
Carefully study the page “What about the Rh factor?” then click on the “Blood Types Problem Set” to test what
you’ve learned.
Once there, click on the “Begin Problem Set” to test your group. There are only six problems, so be careful!
Be sure to read the explanations both when you are right and when you are wrong…
Record your score here: _____correct out of six.
PART 3
Go to the following web site on blood types by typing in this address:
http://anthro.palomar.edu/blood/ABO_system.htm
Read through the web page very carefully. If you need to, you may print out the text and read it that way or just
re-read as often as necessary.
12) Who is the scientist that is reputed as being the first to discover blood types?
____________________________________
13) What year did he die?__________
14-15) What are the four types of blood found in primates? ________, _________, _________, and _________
Complete the chart:
ABO
blood group
antigen
A
antigen
B
A
yes
no
antibody
anti-A
antibody
anti-B
B
no
no
AB
yes
yes
16-17) If a person has Type B blood, what antigens and antibodies are present in their blood?
antigen(s) _________________ antibody(ies) _________________________
18-19) If a person has Type AB blood, what antigens and antibodies are present in their blood?
antigen(s) _________________ antibody(ies) _________________________
20) A person with which blood type is a universal donor? Why? ___________________
_____________________________________________________________________
21) A person with which blood type is a universal receiver? Why? ___________________
____________________________________________________________________
Analyzing Genetic Inheritance Patterns:
22) According to the genetic inheritance chart, can a person who is Type O blood, have a parent
with type A blood? _____________ Explain why or why not? _______________________________
23) According to the chart, what are the possible blood types of a child with 2 parents that have type AB blood.
________________________________________________________
24) Blood typing cannot be used to determine paternity. What other tests must be used? Name and describe
them.
PART 4
Use a ‘google search’ to complete the following items. Give the web address where the information was
located.
1. Complete the pie graph of each type of cell and the percentages contained in the average human's blood.
Web Address: ___________________________________________________________
Components of Human Blood
2. Blood Types in Human Populations
Use different colors to make the chart & graph correspond.
Web Address: _____________________________________________________
Pie chart
Bar graph