• Question: Do animals also have blood groups like humans?

    Asked by dong to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 29 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      yes. One big this we look for in people is Rhesus positive or negative (you may be O+ or O- A+, AB- etc) The plus or minus signs literally corresponds to whether you have a particular protein which sits on your red blood cells and which also happens to do the same things in Rhesus monkeys (I presume they found it there first). You actually have lots and lots of these proteins, but nobody seems to know what most of them do.

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      I did not know that. Interesting!

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