• Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    That chart is overcomplicated.
    There are 3 independent markers. A, B, and +.
    Blood can have A or not, B or not, and + or not. When the body doesn’t have the marker, it will react to the marker.

    So when you have notA, and get A blood, you will have a reaction.
    notA blood works for everyone, A blood only for A people. A people can take any blood, notA people only notA blood.

    Now do this independently for the 3 markers. AB+ people have all markers so can take any combination. notAnotBnot+ people make blood everyone can take, since there are no markers, but they can’t take any other blood with any markers.

    Unfortunately we call not+ -, notAnotB O, notAB B, and AnotB A. So + we invert properly but for A and B we omit them and instead of emptystring when no marker is present we invent O, presumably for 0 markers. This obfuscates the pattern.