• Question: What happens when you have the wrong blood type in your body

    Asked by dofateenscientist to Kat, Andrew, Katie, Sadaf on 27 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by menzie.
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      Andrew Swale answered on 27 Jun 2013:

      Your immune system recognises the blood is ‘foreign’ based on incompatible ‘antigens’ or protein tags present on the blood cells. The immune system will then attack the ‘foreign’ blood cells

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