Prior to the development of DNA fingerprinting, blood type could be used to determine possible parentage. Although it might prove someone was not a parent, it could not show if someone was positively the parent, only that he or she might be a parent. Which of the following is a true statement that can be made about parentage based on blood typing?

A. a parent with o blood type could never have a child with A blood type

b. a parent with type O blood could never have a child with type B blood

C. a parent with type A B blood never have a child with type B blood

D. a parent with type A B blood can ever have a child child with type O blood.

D.

A parent with type A B blood can ever have a child child with type O blood.

Explanation:

An offspring gets an allele for blood type from every parent. Therefore unless both parents have blood type O the offspring cannot have blood type O.

A person with blood group O means they do not blood group antigen on their red blood cells. They cannot pass the antigens to their offspring. A person with AB means they have both antigens for A & B blood groups and can pass either to any of the offspring they have.

The passing down of the blood group alleles follow the Mendelian principles of independent assortment.  

false

because it does not have the potential to be entirely used up