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From: kris@maui.WV.TEK.COM (Kristen McCormick)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Are blood types inherited?
Keywords: bloodtype, parents, genes, whatever...
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I'm posting here because I didn't know who else to ask.
I am probably the only person on earth who never had 
biology in high school, or anywhere else (I may take it next
term though). So my question is, are blood types inherited?

Can a father with type A positive blood and a mother
with AB negative (I think) have a child with O positive blood?
If it helps any, the other child has A positive.

My husband and I both have O positive, and so does our daughter,
so I'm assuming heredety has something to do with it. 
But is it always? Is it like, absolute, or are there dominant
and recessive like eye color? Anyone?

Thanks.
kris
Kristen McCormick
kris@maui.wv.tek.com