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12 years ago
If, for example, there were two people being tied down, and a third person forcibly extracting blood from one using a syringe to inject into the second person, and the two subjects who are tied down do not share the same blood type, what would happen when they receive each other's blood? Would the antibodies in their system begin to attack?
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12 years ago
yes, the antibodies created by the blood will attack the hosts blood and the hosts blood will attack the foreign blood cells
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12 years ago
My biology teacher always told us that if you did this then the person recieving blood would probably die from agglutination. This basically means that red blood cells would clump together and is a result of the antibodies interacting with antigens.
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12 years ago
The Bloodtypes are defined by the antibodies and antigenes present. They are grouped after a system by Landsteiner (the ABO system)
Group A has antigenes A and Antibodies for antigene B
Group B has antigenes B and Antibodies for antigene A
Group AB has both  antigene but no antibodies
Group O has no antigenes but both antibodies

as antibodies will react with their respective antigenes and cause the blood to coagulate you can only combine full blood with the same bloodgroup.  In medicine antibodies are removed so you can combine:

donor:
A  gives A and O
B gives B and O
AB gives AB and O
O gives all
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