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Blood Types:
What are Blood types? |
Biochemical basis for blood types
strictly genetic - inherited from parents-cannot change |
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Blood Types:
What causes different blood types? |
ANTIGENS on the surface of RBC
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Blood Types:
What is an antigen? |
Any large molecule capable of binding to an antibody and thereby triggering an immune response.
Can be: prteins,glycoprotein,lipid,glycolipid,carbohydrate,nucleic acid |
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Blood Types:
what is an antibody? |
purpose to fight antigens
gamma globulins that react with antigens always present in blood plasma and other body fluids found on the surface of some leukocytes |
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Blood Types:
What are blood type antigens called? |
agglutinogens
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Blood Types:
what is hemagglutination? |
clumping of rbc's when they react with antibodies.
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