A woman with blood type B has a baby with blood type O. A man she says is the baby's father has blood type A, but he denies having fathered the child. Could he be the father?

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Yes, if both he and the mother are heterozygous carriers of type O, he could be the father. But with only this to go by, it cannot be proved that he is the father, thus further testing would be necessary.

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