The article I chose for this week was about blood typing and modern day forensics as the title describes. It describes how fingerprinting was one of the first methods to convict someone of a crime in the 1800s until Paul Uhlenhuth created the precipitin test, involving a serum that reacted to human blood. The article also mentions the discovery of ABO blood groups by Karl Landsteiner in 1901. The effects of blood typing in nursing is also discussed in the article, with nurses playing a crucial part in efficiently and accurately diagnosing numerous complex medical issues. Finally the article mentions the importance of blood typing in modern day forensics, specifically mentioning the methods used to identify the A, B, AB and O antigens. Also the importance of how different blood types can help categorize a person by their descent.
The reason I chose the scenario was because I thought it would be helpful in understanding the history of blood typing …show more content…
Also the different allele patterns such as incomplete dominance (a mixture of both parental alleles in the offspring), and codominance (both parental alleles are expressed in the offspring). The different laws of inheritance are also part of the week's concept, such as the law of dominance (in a heterozygous one trait usually the dominant will hide the characteristics of the recessive), the law of segregation ( paired genes must separate equally into the gametes), independent assortment (genes don’t affect each other regarding the sorting of alleles into gametes, so every possible combination of alleles for each gamete has an equal opportunity of happening). Finally the linkage of genes means that the two will be inherited as a pair, but due to crossing over or recombination alleles are exchanged diversifying the possibilities of unique
The reason I chose the scenario was because I thought it would be helpful in understanding the history of blood typing …show more content…
Also the different allele patterns such as incomplete dominance (a mixture of both parental alleles in the offspring), and codominance (both parental alleles are expressed in the offspring). The different laws of inheritance are also part of the week's concept, such as the law of dominance (in a heterozygous one trait usually the dominant will hide the characteristics of the recessive), the law of segregation ( paired genes must separate equally into the gametes), independent assortment (genes don’t affect each other regarding the sorting of alleles into gametes, so every possible combination of alleles for each gamete has an equal opportunity of happening). Finally the linkage of genes means that the two will be inherited as a pair, but due to crossing over or recombination alleles are exchanged diversifying the possibilities of unique