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Kinds and Species ?

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:22 pm
by twinc
would inter changeability of blood transfusion indicate close relationship - anyone know anything about animal and/or fish or bird or insect blood transfusions - twinc

Re: Kinds and Species ?

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:07 pm
by KBCid
I googled animal human blood transfusion..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_transfusion

Re: Kinds and Species ?

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:02 pm
by sandy_mcd
twinc wrote:would inter changeability of blood transfusion indicate close relationship - anyone know anything about animal and/or fish or bird or insect blood transfusions - twinc
That is an interesting question I could not find much on. I suspect in general there should be a rough relationship. But even all humans can't safely exchange blood. I couldn't find any successful inter-species transfers. And most insects don't have our kind of blood - there is no closed circulatory system and no oxygen carrying molecule.

Re: Kinds and Species ?

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:53 am
by PaulSacramento
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_%28non-human%29

Animals and bacteria have cell surface antigens referred to as a blood type. Antigens from the human ABO blood group system are also found in apes such as chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas. Other animal blood sometimes agglutinates (to varying levels of intensity) with human blood group reagents, but the structure of the blood group antigens in animals is not always identical to those typically found in humans. The classification of most animal blood groups therefore uses different blood typing systems to those used for classification of human blood...