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    The document summarizes key information about blood and blood types: - Blood is composed of red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma. Red blood cells carry oxygen, white blood cells fight infection, and platelets help with clotting. - There are four main blood types - A, B, AB, and O - which are determined by inherited genes and influence blood transfusions. Type O blood is the universal donor, while Type AB is the universal recipient. - The Rh factor also influences transfusions - Rh+ blood can be received by Rh+ or Rh- patients, but Rh- patients can only receive Rh- blood. Blood typing is important evidence in forensic investigations.

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    The document summarizes key information about blood and blood types: - Blood is composed of red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma. Red blood cells carry oxygen, white blood cells fight infection, and platelets help with clotting. - There are four main blood types - A, B, AB, and O - which are determined by inherited genes and influence blood transfusions. Type O blood is the universal donor, while Type AB is the universal recipient. - The Rh factor also influences transfusions - Rh+ blood can be received by Rh+ or Rh- patients, but Rh- patients can only receive Rh- blood. Blood typing is important evidence in forensic investigations.

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    The document summarizes key information about blood and blood types: - Blood is composed of red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma. Red blood cells carry oxygen, white blood cells fight infection, and platelets help with clotting. - There are four main blood types - A, B, AB, and O - which are determined by inherited genes and influence blood transfusions. Type O blood is the universal donor, while Type AB is the universal recipient. - The Rh factor also influences transfusions - Rh+ blood can be received by Rh+ or Rh- patients, but Rh- patients can only receive Rh- blood. Blood typing is important evidence in forensic investigations.

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    Forensic Science: Blood Basics Notes

    Name _______________________

    1. What makes up the blood in our bodies?

    __________ __________ ___________(erythrocytes) The most abundant cells in our blood; they are
    produced in the bone marrow and contain a protein called hemoglobin that carries oxygen to our cells.

    __________ __________ __________ (leukocytes) They are part of the immune system and destroy
    pathogens.

    ___________ The yellowish liquid portion of blood that contains electrolytes, nutrients and vitamins,
    hormones, clotting factors, and proteins such as antibodies to fight infection.

    ___________ (thrombocytes) The clotting factors that are carried in the plasma; they clot together in a
    process called coagulation to seal a wound and prevent a loss of blood.

    2. Blood Facts
    A. The average adult has about ___________ liters of blood inside of their body, which makes up 7-8% of their body
    weight.
    B. This red liquid is living ___________ that carries oxygen and nutrients to all parts of the body, and carries carbon
    dioxide and other waste products back to the lungs, kidneys and liver for disposal. It fights against ___________ and
    helps heal ___________.
    C. There are about one _____________ red blood cells in two to three drops of blood. For every _______ red blood
    cells, there are about _______ platelets and _______ white cell.

    3. Genetics of Blood
    Your blood type is established before you are ___________, by specific ___________ inherited from your parents.
    These two genes - one gene from your ___________ and one from your ___________ - determine your blood type by
    causing proteins called ______________________ to exist on the surface of all of your red blood cells.

    4. Blood Types
    A. There are three alleles or genes for blood type: ___, ___, and ___.
    B. What are the four types of blood? Give the genotypes for each.

    Type A = ____ ____

    Type B = ____ ____

    Type AB = ____

    5. How common are the four blood types?


    A = _____ %

    B = _____ %

    AB = _____ %

    O= _____ %

    6. Blood Transfusions
    A. What blood type is known as the "Universal Donor"? __________
    B. What blood type is known as the "Universal Recipient"? _________
    C. Complete the diagram using the class notes.
    D. Complete this statement: A person with Rh + blood may receive blood that is
    ____ or _____, while a person with Rh - blood can only receive _____ blood.
    T. Trimpe 2006 http://sciencespot.net/

    Type O = ____

    7. Rh (Rhesus) Factors
    What animal helped scientists discover Rh proteins in blood? ____________________ ___________________If
    someone has the Rh protein, they are said to have Rh ________________ blood. If someone does not have this
    protein, they have Rh ____________________ blood.

    8. How can blood be used as evidence in a crime?

    Blood samples Can be analyzed to determine ___________ ___________ and ___________, which can be
    matched to possible suspects.

    Blood droplets Can be analyzed to give clues to the location of a ___________, movement of a
    ___________, and type of ___________.

    Blood spatter Can be analyzed to determine ___________ that give investigators clues to how a crime might
    have happened.

    9. Online Activity: Blood Typing Game


    Go to the Forensic Science page of the Kid Zone at http://sciencespot.net/ and click the link for the Blood Typing
    Game. Use your notes and what you learned about blood transfusions to complete the game.
    Directions:
    1 - Drag the syringe to the patients arm (near the elbow) to draw blood and then hold it over each test tube. Use the
    reactions to determine the blood type.
    2 - Decide which bags of blood the patient can receive and then drag the bags of blood to the pole to give it to the
    patient.
    Patient #1 Man with purple hair
    NOTE: A Rh + should be written as A+.

    What was his blood type? ______


    Which bags of blood did you give to him? _______ _______
    Patient #2 Older man with white hair
    What was his blood type? ______
    Which bag of blood did you give to him? _______
    Patient #3 Young lady with red hair
    What was her blood type? ______
    Which bags of blood did you give to her? _______ _______ _______ _______

    T. Trimpe 2006 http://sciencespot.net/

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