At 1:00 a.m., someone breaks a window in the back of a store and robs the safe. On the way out, the thief is cut on a piece of broken glass. A forensic team collects and tests a sample of blood left behind by the thief. It is O-. The police bring in a suspect with a cut forearm who was arrested just three blocks from the store. The person resembles someone seen leaving the store at the time of the robbery. A sample of the suspect's blood is taken and tested for blood type. Once the suspect's blood is mixed with anti-A serum, it is immediately clear that the suspect is not the person who was cut on the broken glass in the store. How did the test indicate that fact?
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Step 1: The forensic blood from the crime scene was typed as O−, which means the red blood cells carry no A or B antigens (and are Rh–). Show more…
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