Question

Who discovered blood groups? What are the main blood groups?

Answer 1

Answer:

The ABO blood types were first discovered by an Austrian Physician Karl Landsteiner working at the Pathological-Anatomical Institute of the University of Vienna (now Medical University of Vienna)

Blood Groups

There are 4 main blood groups (types of blood) –

A, B, AB and O

Your blood group is determined by the genes you inherit from your parents

Each group can be either RhD positive or RhD negative, which means in total there are 8 blood groups

The list below shows the percentage of donors with each blood type:

O positive: 35%

O negative: 13%

A positive: 30%

A negative: 8%

B positive: 8%

B negative: 2%

AB positive: 2%

AB negative: 1%

Answer 2

Karl Landsteiner discovered blood groups.

There are 4 main blood groups (types of blood) – A, B, AB and O. Your blood group is determined by the genes you inherit from your parents. Each group can be either RhD positive or RhD negative, which means in total there are 8 blood groups.