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20. A woman has type O blood and her husband has type AB blood. Is it possible for them to have children with the same blood type as their parents?

21. Can a man with type B blood and a woman with type A blood have a child with type O blood?

22. Cross a man that is heterozygous type A and a woman that is homozygous type B. What percentage of their children will be type AB?

23. Which of the following genotypes results in the same phenotype?
a. IAIA and IAIi c. ii and IBi
b. IAIB and IAIA d. IAIB and IAIA

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Parents with type O and AB blood can have children with types A or B. A couple with types A and B can indeed have a child with type O blood, if both possess one recessive O allele. When a heterozygous type A individual mates with a homozygous type B, 50% of their offspring will have type AB blood.

Yes, a woman with type O blood and her husband with type AB blood can have children with the same blood types as their parents. A man with type B blood and a woman with type A blood can have a child with type O blood if they both carry the recessive O allele (genotype AO and BO respectively). Crossing a man that is heterozygous type A (IAi) with a woman that is homozygous type B (IBIB) will result in 50% of their children being type AB.

For the first question, because the woman has type O blood (ii), she can only pass on the i allele, and because her husband has type AB blood (IAIB), he can pass on either the IA or IB allele. This means their children can either be blood type A (IAi) or blood type B (IBi). For the second question, as type A and B parents could have the genotype AO and BO, their child can inherit the O allele from each parent (ii), resulting in type O blood. For the third question, a heterozygous type A man (IAi) can pass on either the IA or i allele, and a homozygous type B woman (IBIB) can only pass the IB allele, so 50% of their children will have the genotype IAIB, which is type AB blood.

It is very much possible for these parents to have offspring with the same or different blood types due to the nature of inheritance of the ABO blood group system which includes codominance and multiple alleles.

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20. A woman has type O blood and her husband has type AB blood. Is it possible for them to have children with the same blood type as their parents? Each biological parent donates one of their two ABO alleles to their child. A mother who is blood type O can only pass an O allele to her son or daughter.

21. Can a man with type B blood and a woman with type A blood have a child with type O blood? One parent with A and another with B can produce a child with A, B, AB or O blood types. If one parent has A and another has AB, they can either produce a child with A, B or AB blood types. If one parent has A and another has O, they can either produce a child with A or O blood types. For example my father has an A blood type and my mother has an O blood type. My blood type is O+.

22. Cross a man that is heterozygous type A and a woman that is homozygous type B. What percentage of their children will be type AB? There is no chance of a child with Type O. If one parent is AB, there is no chance any child can be O because the AB parent doesn't have a "i" to pass on.

23. Which of the following genotypes results in the same phenotype?

a. IAIA and IAIi c. ii and IBi

b. IAIB and IAIA d. IAIB and IAIA

Anwser: IAIA and IAil

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