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Principles Of Inheritance And Variation

Question
CBSEENBI12000224

Child has blood group O. If the father has blood group A and mother blood group B, work out the genotypes of the parents and the possible genotypes of the other offsprings.

Solution

Since the blood group of the child is O so it must be homozygous for the allele IOIO . Since the parents have blood group A and B  and produce a child with O blood group therefore they must be heterozygous that is the genotype of the father must be IAIO and genotype of the mother must be IBIO.

The genotypes of the other possible offsprings will be -:


Inheritance of blood groups