How would my kids turn out?

Question

okay lets say a guy with light to medium brown hair and a red headed girl what would their offspring be? (blonde, red hair, brunette.)
okay lets say a guy with light to medium brown hair and blonde girl what would their offspring be?

Answer 1

Generally, overall, the child's hair will not be darker than the darkest of the two parents.



Darker hair is usually a dominant trait, and blonder hair is usually a recessive trait. This means that the brown-haired person would need to have recessive blond gene to pass on in order to match the blond girl's genes to create a blond child.



Red hair is even more recessive. You need two copies of it in order to have red-colored hair, but it also blends with other hair genes. If the guy in your equation has freckles, there's a fair chance that he carries the redhead gene. In this case, he could have a strawberry blond to redhead child with the blond mom, or an auburn to redhead child with the redhead mom. If the guy in your equation does NOT have freckles, then he more than likely does not carry the redhead gene (it's actually a mutated gene). It would be impossible for a man to sire a redheaded child if he himself does not have the redhead gene. The child, however, would carry the redhead gene, but just wouldn't show it in hair color. The child may have freckling skin instead, but would have the same hair color as the dad.

Answer 2

It is completely genetic. You would need to look at the family history and trends of offspring. Some genes are recessive while others are dominate. A blonde hair gene is recessive but if he passes on an chromosome with a recesive blonde gene and so do you then you are both going to have a bay girl.



To get a red headed child you would both have to pass on a recessive red hair gene so that iisn'tnt washed out by the dominant brown gene.

Answer 3

I'm a light brunette and hubby is a blonde. Our 3 kids have blonde hair. My parents both had dark brown hair. My mother's father was a red head, and her mother had dark hair. Both of my dad's parents were brunette's. Hubby's beard comes in reddish, so I thought one of our kids would be a red head, as you have to have that trait on both sides ot have a red headed child. o well. Maybe number 4 would have been the red head!

Answer 4

When it comes to genetics, it's all in the roll of the dice: You never know how your kids may turn out. Their hair could get darker as they get older (like mines did. I was very light headed when I was born but now my hair is dark brown) or they could stay blonde.

Answer 5

Does it really matter? You love them with blonde, red, brown, or black hair no matter what. Right? But just for the record, the fathers gene is usually dominant I think.

Answer 6

My father had straight black brown hair and my mother's was wavy ash blond.

We came out: curly ash blond; wavy black brown (me, now going bald and white!); straight strawberry blond; extremely curly light brown; and wavy copper red.

I'm the only one losing his hair.

There was some red in both families previously. My mom's mother had beautiful wavy red hair that turned glossy white, and my dad had a red beard (now grey).

You get what you get, and enjoy it while you've got it!

Answer 7

If you are truly curious, here is a great link to a Stanford University article on genetics & hair color. But unfortunately it's not something you can easily translate into a 2-sentence answer for Y!A:

http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=39

Answer 8

This is an issue of Dominant and Recessive Traits, so it isn't completely a matter of how the parents look.

Answer 9

They'll come out looking sci-fi creatures on the x-files. No, I'm jk, but why would it matter how your kids will turn out? You should love them and think they're beautiful regardless of their appearances because they're your children!!!

Answer 10

nicely i like rock and rap. yet you pay attention to assets you could relate to. whilst little ones pay attention to rap and the rappers communicate approximately hood stuff hood little ones can relate to it. in case you like guitars then you definately can relate to rock music. and a few rap songs have dances to them, who doesnt like to bounce? yet i do admit different rap songs popping out are approximately weird and wonderful stuff yet thats what some human beings like! =D wish that helped.