Name:
Unit: Immune System – Components of Blood
Blood Type Activity
Circle your assigned role:
Blood Type: A / B / AB/ O
Rhesus Factor: Rh - / Rh +
Donor / Recipient
At each stage, you need to explain why your pairing works, or doesn’t work using terms such
as ‘agglutination’, ‘antigen’, and ‘antibody’.
Round 1: BLOOD TYPE ONLY. Find a partner who is a compatible donor/recipient for you. (If
you are a donor, you need to find a recipient who can accept your blood without dying; if you
are a recipient, you need to find a donor who will give you blood that is of the appropriate
type).
Partner Name: ____________________
Donor’s blood type: ____________
Recipient’s blood type: ____________
Round 2: BLOOD TYPE ONLY. Find a partner who is an incompatible donor/recipient for you.
(If you are a donor, you need to find a recipient who cannot accept your blood without dying; if
you are a recipient, you need to find a donor who will give blood that will ‘kill’ you).
Partner Name: ____________________
Donor’s blood type: ____________
Recipient’s blood type: ____________
Round 3: Now INCLUDING THE RHESUS FACTOR, find a partner who is an appropriate
donor/recipient for you. (If you are a donor, you need to find a recipient who can accept your
blood without dying; if you are a recipient, you need to find a donor who will give you an
appropriate blood type so you won’t die).
Partner Name: ____________________
Donor’s blood type: ____________
Recipient’s blood type: ____________
Antigens and Antibodies
Blood Type
Protein Marker
Antigen on Red
Blood Cell
Antibody in Serum
A
B
AB
O
Blood Type Matching (ABO Only) – Donating and Receiving
Blood Type of Donor
O
O
Blood type
of
recipient
A
B
AB
A
B
AB
Blood Type Matching (ABO and Rh) – Donating and Receiving
DONOR
OOO+
ARECIPIENT
A+
BB+
ABAB+
O+
A-
A+
B-
B+
AB-
AB+