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When someone has a blood transfusion or an organ donation do they have someone else's DNA for life or is it slowly assimilated and replaced by your own?

2007-02-20 06:45:13 · 1 answers · asked by cernunnos3uk 1 in Science & Mathematics Biology

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Blood cells don't live for very long - about 120 days until they die and are reabsorbed. They are replaced all the time with new ones produced in the bone marrow. A transfusion is just a temporary thing to replace blood lost through accident or surgery, until the body has time to make new cells.

The major component of blood, plasma, doesn't contain any DNA anyway.

2007-02-20 21:16:14 · answer #1 · answered by Daniel R 6 · 0 0

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