• Question: If animals have blood types, can you tell what blood type they have by their cells?

    Asked by oinky123 to Hussain, Aimee on 12 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by oinky123, Awesomebird.
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      Hussain Jaffery answered on 12 Nov 2015:

      That’s right, all mammals have blood and there blood cells, especially the white blood cells. These blood cells have ways of ‘talking’ to each other, but the way they do this is by feeling, with ‘receptor proteins’.

      They feel for healthy cells of the animals own body, and let them pass, while if they feel for something that’s foreign, like a bacteria or virus, they attack that foreign cell/virus.

      Blood types are just different types or receptors and we can detect them using other proteins the glow when you put them into a machine with a microscope that can recognise them.

      Just like humans have different types of blood and receptors most mammals have different types of blood too. Mammals, but not all animals have this feature.

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