Explain how a child with blood type O could be born to a mother with blood type A and a father with blood type B.

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Explain how a child with blood type O could be born to a mother with blood type A and a father with blood type B.

  • this could not happen
  • Crossing a parent with type A blood and a parent with type B blood always yields offspring with blood type O.
  • both parents are heterozygotes 
  • both parents are homozygotes
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