Blood Typing

 

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You may have noticed something about person 1, who can receive blood from so many people. Person 1 is able to do this because there are many different cell surface antigens on their cells, and therefore very few antibodies in their blood.

So people with a lot of different cell surface antigens on their blood cells are closer to being universal recipients.

Let's introduce a new person into our scenario:

 

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Is person 5 a universal recipient?