what blood type( or type ) can be found in an offspring if a mother has type A blood and father has type B blood?
Answer (1)
If a mother has blood type A and the father has blood type B, the possible blood types for their offspring can be A, B, AB, or O. This is because:Blood type is determined by the ABO gene, which has three alleles: A, B, and O.The mother with type A blood can have genotype AA or AO.The father with type B blood can have genotype BB or BO.When these combine, the child could inherit one allele from each parent resulting in possible genotypes: AA, AO, BB, BO, or AB.These genotypes correspond to blood types A (AA or AO), B (BB or BO), AB (AB), or O (OO only if both parents pass an O allele, which is possible if both are AO and BO respectively).Thus, children of an A mother and B father could have any of the four blood types: A, B, AB, or O.
