A Bone Marrow Transplant May Not Be Appropriate from a Given

question 43

Multiple Choice

A bone marrow transplant may not be appropriate from a given donor (Jane) to a given recipient (Jane's cousin, Bob) , even though Jane has previously given blood for one of Bob's needed transfusions, because ________.

• A) even though Jane's blood type is a match to Bob's, her major histocompatibility (MHC) proteins may not be a match
• B) a blood type match is less stringent than a match required for transplant because blood is more tolerant of change
• C) for each gene, there is only one blood allele but many tissue alleles
• D) Jane's MHC class II genes are not expressed in bone marrow

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