American #immunochemist, who with his wife Lyle, during the 1930's, made a worldwide survey of th…
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American #immunochemist, who with his wife Lyle, during the 1930's, made a worldwide survey of the distribution of blood types. He discovered that blood groups are inherited and not influenced by environment. By #genetic analysis of the blood groups that human races are populations that differ in the difference of their #alleles. On this basis, he divided the world population into 13 geographically distinct races with different blood group #gene profiles. Later, Boyd discovered #lectins, which are #antibody-like #proteins, in plants. He also studied the blood groups of mummies.
