If the above is true,
Then if your mosquito was killed next door where a person is murdered. Is it true that your DNA is at the scene? Since your blood is in the mosquito who sucked it from you...
2006-09-30 17:56:26 · 9 answers · asked by akanekaye 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Your blood is in its stomach, not its bloodstream. But it it still your bloodtype/DNA as long as it hasn't been digested yet
2006-09-30 18:03:37 · answer #1 · answered by Pseudo Obscure 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be fair:
The mosquito's blood won't be O+. The contents of the mosquito's digestive tract would be O+, though read on.
And, assuming that the insect still had any of the blood in its digestive system, it would show up at the scene.
However, if tested, the blood would (a) show traces of injestion and digestion; (b) would most likely also be fused with other people's blood; (c) would have a little mosquito corpse nearby as an obvious explanation.
Keep in mind that mosquitos are small critters, and may excrete the blood in flight.
2006-09-30 18:08:05 · answer #2 · answered by kx_wx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As I understand it, insects don't have a circulatory system in the same sense as mammals do because they don't need it. The surface area to volume ratio of a mosquite in high and so it can infact rely on diffussion of molecules. Therefore it would have no blood type.
Even if it does have a circulatory system, it is very unlikely that there will be the same antigen sites on cells as ours - our blood typing is done on antigen-antibody composition.
The blood could still be in the GI tract of the mosquito, but I really don't think that that could be used in eveidence. How far can a mosquito fly? It would only put you within a radius of the murder, not at the scene. Plus police forensics aren't likely to spend their time looking for white blood cells within the blood sample that small.
2006-09-30 21:40:13 · answer #3 · answered by Bacteria Boy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok, a mosquito uses your blood as a source of protein for the production of eggs. Mosquitos that draw blood are always females.
Human blood and mosquito blood are very different. Your blood type does not affect the mosquito blood in any way. Its blood type does not change.
The amount of blood drawn by a mosquito is very small. It is unlikely that it would be enough to taint a crime scene. Especially since it would be mixed in with the remains of the mosquito.
(From Wikipedia: In the English language, the word Mosquito (Span., little fly) dates back to 1583. The word was adopted to replace the term "biting flies" to prevent confusion with the house fly. It is derived from the word musca (Latin fly, cf. Skt maksh) and is related to the Italian moschetta and the French moustique.)
Mosquitoes are mainly nectar feeders, but the female bites for blood in order to get the protein she needs to produce eggs.
2006-09-30 20:19:24 · answer #4 · answered by RjKardo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the above notion is wrong as the blood the mosquito feeds on goes into its digestive system and does not mix with its circulatory system. mosquitoes, like other insects have haemolymph which fills up the entire haemoceol. they do not have blood. mosquitoes feed on blood, take nutrients from it and degrade it by their digestive system. the blood isolated from a mosquito will show human red blood cells in it from which we can know its human blood and determine the blood group. insects do not have blood or blood groups.
2006-09-30 18:12:00 · answer #5 · answered by prashansa_kumar 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Your blood does not enter the mosquito's blood stream. It will be digested in the insect's digestive tract, and the mosquito has its own, separate blood stream.
2006-09-30 18:03:42 · answer #6 · answered by Tahini Classic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its actually ur blood, u c, when u kill a mosquito.
2006-09-30 18:31:15 · answer #7 · answered by Dawood killer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2006-09-30 18:00:56 · answer #8 · answered by ag_iitkgp 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yeah you will be convicted of murder.
shame on you
did you really think you could get away with it
2006-09-30 18:06:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋