Karl Landsteiner placed animal blood in human blood and discovered that the blood clumped. Which did his creativity lead to?

Landsteiner observed that blood from different individuals sometimes clumped when mixed, revealing that blood is not the same in everyone. His work led to the identification of the A, B, AB, and O blood groups. This was not a discovery about blood clotting or blood-cell formation.

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