Discounting rare but possible mutations the following holds true. Parents blood groups A and A, A and B, A and O, B and B, B and O, O and O can produce type O blood in their children. The rhesus factor (Rhesus positive/rhesus negative) depends on the rhesus pairing in the parents as follows: Father rhesus positive, mother rhesus positive or rhesus negative = rhesus positive or rhesus negative Father rhesus negative, mother rhesus positive = rhesus positive or rhesus negative Father rhesus negative, mother rhesus negative = rhesus negative Example: A rhesus positive father and rhesus positive mother of blood type A and O respectively could produce an O positive child, as could a rhesus positive father and rhesus negative mother both of blood group O. Follow the link to an excellent site.
To the second question the answer, in short, is YES; To answer the first question, there are four logical blood types: A, B, AB, and O. Then there is the Rhesus factor: either positive or negative. So there are actually eight types of blood a human can have: one of the above types with a negative Rhesus factor or with a positive Rhesus factor. Rhesus factor is a factor which compares human blood to a Rhesus monkey's blood. A negative result means your blood is not comparable to a Rhesus monkey. Blood types are inherited from your parents. If one parent has type A+, and the other has a B-, your blood type can either come out as A, + or -, or B, + or -, or the rare AB, + or - but not O. While type O negative is the universal donor, type AB positive is a universal recipient.
To the second question the answer, in short, is YES; To answer the first question, there are four logical blood types: A, B, AB, and O. Then there is the Rhesus factor: either positive or negative. So there are actually eight types of blood a human can have: one of the above types with a negative Rhesus factor or with a positive Rhesus factor. Rhesus factor is a factor which compares human blood to a Rhesus monkey's blood. A negative result means your blood is not comparable to a Rhesus monkey. Blood types are inherited from your parents. If one parent has type A+, and the other has a B-, your blood type can either come out as A, + or -, or B, + or -, or the rare AB, + or - but not O. While type O negative is the universal donor, type AB positive is a universal recipient.
The baby can only be an O Blood Group as both parents can only be carrying 'O' type genes. The baby would have a 75% chance of being an O positive and a 25% chance of being an O negative. This is because the mother can only pass on a Rhesus negative gene but the father might either have two Rhesus positive genes or one Rhesus positive and one Rhesus negative. If the first is true the child will only be O positive, if the second is true it could be O positive or O negative depending on which gene the father passes.
The baby can only be an O Blood Group as both parents can only be carrying 'O' type genes. The baby would have a 75% chance of being an O positive and a 25% chance of being an O negative. This is because the mother can only pass on a Rhesus negative gene but the father might either have two Rhesus positive genes or one Rhesus positive and one Rhesus negative. If the first is true the child will only be O positive, if the second is true it could be O positive or O negative depending on which gene the father passes.
No, they are not connected, although both conditions could occur in the same child. Any two conditions can occur in one child, but that does not necessarily mean the conditions are related. Rhesus negative blood depends on the blood type of the parents. Spina Bifida is a spinal condition, which has nothing to do with blood type.
Yes. Each person has two genes to make up their blood group and rhesus group, one from each parent. For blood groups, groups A and B are dominant over O, and for rhesus groups positive is dominant over negative. If you have one of each, your type will be whichever the dominant one is. Firstly looking at the blood group - an O group child can be born to group B parents if both the mother's and father's blood group genotype is BO. The child has a 25% chance of being BB (group B), 50% chance of being BO (group B) and 25% chance of being OO (group O). Looking at the rhesus group - mother's genotype must be Neg/Neg, father could be pos/pos, in which case the child will always be rhesus positive, or pos/neg where the child has a 50% chance of being rhesus positive, and 50% chance of being rhesus negative.
In genetics, you have to distinguish between two categories of features: features of the phenotype and features of the genotype. The phenotype are all the features your body actually has, such as your eye color, your hair color, your blood group and your rhesus factor. The genotype is the information actually contained on your DNA. While you may have blue eyes, your DNA might actually contain data for brown eyes that is simply not translated and therefore doesn't show. (More in detail, you have two chromosomes for each task, i.e. information for everything in your body exists in two slightly different versions in every one of your cells, but only one of the versions is actually used.) In the process of meiosis, the chromosome set is halved so that every sperm and every egg cell only contain one chromosome for each task. When they come together, the sets combine and make a whole (doubled) set again. Now if both your parents were rhesus positive but you're negative, that simply means both your parents have on one chromosome the information for rhesus negative, and by chance a sperm and an egg cell both with rhesus negative met.
No, A negative blood refers to the absence of the A antigen on red blood cells, while Rhesus negative (Rh-) refers to the absence of the Rh antigen. A person can be A negative and Rh positive or A negative and Rh negative.
RH factor in blood types stands for "Rhesus Factor". Blood tests were performed on Rhesus monkeys and the Rh+ and Rh- factors were isolated. An antigen found in the red blood cells of most people: those who have Rh factor are said to be Rh positive (Rh+), while those who do not are Rh negative (Rh-). What about the meaning of RHD- Rh blood group, D antigen . The rhesus complex is not just one antigen, but several, when someone is told to be Rh+, it usually refers to the D antigen (one of the components of the Rh complex), because it's the most common, and the easiest to identify, however it's not the only one.
It is possible as the Rhesus factor is a dominant trait. So, even if the parents have only one allele for the factor, there is a 1/4th chance that the child could get neither allele from the parents and end up as O negative.
The initials "Rh" stand for Rhesus factor, which is a protein found on the surface of red blood cells. This factor is important in blood typing, as individuals who have the Rh protein are considered Rh positive (Rh+), while those who do not have the protein are considered Rh negative (Rh-).