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| Learning how to test blood to figure out a person's blood type... |
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| These facts are crucial in knowing what type of blood a person would need for a blood transfusion or surgery. |
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| Mixing serum with the synthetic "blood" to see what type it is. |
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| After mixing the "blood" and serum together we observed to see what happened to the blood in the wells. |
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| We learned that this person has blood type B because it clumped together. Further into our experiment, we also checked the Rh factor and found out that this persons "blood" tested positive for the RH factor, making them B+. Without knowing the correct blood type, it is very dangerous to perform surgery or give a blood transfusion. In most cases it would be life threatening to receive the wrong type of blood. Only certain types of blood can be given to a person depending on the type of blood they have. Therefore, it is very important to know what your blood type is.... |
