Blood Bank History
ABO
RH
Molecular Methods
Mish-Mash
100

This man described the ABO blood group system in 1900 and received the Nobel prize in 1930.

Who is Landsteiner

100

This is the number of antigen in the ABO blood group system 

what is 2 (A and B). 

O is lack of A and B 

AB is presence of both A and B

100

This is the antigen that used to be referred to as the "Rh factor"

RhD

100

This is the process of amplifying DNA by repeatedly denaturing, annealing primers and extending with DNA polymerase and dNTPs

What is the polymerase chain reaction or PCR
100

This is the web-based interface the Red Cross provides to customers for placing orders for products and services 

What is Bloodhub (or Connect)

200

This blood group system name is the species of monkeys whose red cells were injected into rabbits and the resulting antibodies studied

What is Rh (Rhesus)

200

This is the universal donor

What is O negative 

200

These are the four common antigens encoded by the RHCE gene

C, c, E, e
200

This is a method used to decrease the chances of DNA carry-over in PCR-based testing.

What is UV light or decontaminating with bleach

200

This is the name of the serologic testing laboratories that perform patient antibody identifications and label red cell units as antigen negative

What are Immunohematology Reference Laboratories (IRLs)

300

These two men postulated that there were three closely linked genes encoding D, d, C, c, E and e

Who are Fisher and Race?

300

This is the universal recipient

What is AB positive

300

This is the number of genes in the RH blood group system

What is 2 (RHD and RHCE)

300

This is the genotyping method that involves digestion with bacteria-derived enzymes that cleave double-stranded DNA in a sequence specific manner

What is PCR-RFLP?

300

This is the organization that curates and publishes allele tables for all blood group systems

What is the ISBT (International Society for Blood Transfusion)?

400

This substance is first made available in 1967 for use in preventing hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn from RhD incompatibility..

What is Rh immunoprophylaxis (or RhIg, or trade name RhoGam or WinRho)

400

This is the reaction of anti-A and anti-B with red cells of a donor or patient

What is the forward type?

400

This is a high prevalence antigen lacking in ~1% of individuals of African descent for which NML searches for antigen negative donors used for RH allele matching

What is hrB?

400

This is the software program NML uses to align a patient or donor blood group antigen gene sequence to the reference sequence

What is Sequencher?

400
This is the high prevalence antigen in the MNS blood group system that is lacking in ~1% of individuals of African descent.

What is U.

500

This blood group system, #034,  includes a single antigen ,for which the gene was discovered in 2013, and the antigen negative phenotype was determined  to be caused by a 17 base pair deletion by using whole exome sequencing of several antigen negative individuals.

What is VEL?

500

This is the organ transplantation where a group A2 individual can be the donor for a group B individual.

what is kidney?

500

This is the SNP for which the minor allele typically confers expression of both V and VS antigens

What is RHCE c.733C>G

500

This is the method used by NML to separately sequence two alleles carried by a donor or patient.

What is plasmid cloning.

500

This is the transcription factor that regulates expression of the FY blood group system in red blood cells (but not in other tissue types)

What is GATA-1?

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