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B, it's olde english, apparently. Told ya I was british, not english!
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You can't predict. Even with the same parents you can end up with wildly differing appearances:
Your kids are beautiful
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Can anyone answer this conundrum?
A father of an unborn child is mixd race (white / afro-caribean) - and mum-to-be is white.
Given that Dad has three kids from a previous relationship with a white woman and they all appeared to be white, does it follow that the new baby from the new Mum will also follow this trend?
Thanks.
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All right, here's your explanation:
The father of the child has a mix-up of genetics from one white parent and one black parent. Of course, skin color isn't the only thing affected. Facial features, hair texture...other things that are far more nature than nurture.
A random half of his genetics are in each of his sperm. A random half of her genetics are in each of her eggs.
Then you go to how those genes interact. There's dominant, recessive, and incomplete dominant genes. Incomplete dominance is when genes are expressed as a blend...like skin color. It isn't just the genetics you get but also which ones are expressed.
So, first you're going to get a different genetic mix and then it's going to be expressed in a unique way. So, as I said above, you can't predict.
With the first mom, it's entirely possible he just contributed a sperm with more genetics from the white side of his family. It's really just a matter of chance. If he'd had a fourth child with her, it's possible that child could represent his ethnicity more. There's no way to know what this child "should" look like, either with a new lady or with the one he's already had children with.
That's without charts or graphs or Punnett squares but I think it counts as 'widdom' and I'm definitely edumacated.
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Thank you. There is an agenda behind the qurstion and iit is not racist or interfering. I was asking a biological question looking to see if anyone had the knowledge, education or experience to give a biological expanation. Instead I get a volley of abuse and neo-phillosophies that has been rammed into a genration that has been programmed to bight without reason or widdom!
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All right, here's your explanation:
The father of the child has a mix-up of genetics from one white parent and one black parent. Of course, skin color isn't the only thing affected. Facial features, hair texture...other things that are far more nature than nurture.
A random half of his genetics are in each of his sperm. A random half of her genetics are in each of her eggs.
Then you go to how those genes interact. There's dominant, recessive, and incomplete dominant genes. Incomplete dominance is when genes are expressed as a blend...like skin color. It isn't just the genetics you get but also which ones are expressed.
So, first you're going to get a different genetic mix and then it's going to be expressed in a unique way. So, as I said above, you can't predict.
With the first mom, it's entirely possible he just contributed a sperm with more genetics from the white side of his family. It's really just a matter of chance. If he'd had a fourth child with her, it's possible that child could represent his ethnicity more. There's no way to know what this child "should" look like, either with a new lady or with the one he's already had children with.
That's without charts or graphs or Punnett squares but I think it counts as 'widdom' and I'm definitely edumacated.
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If you're black and your girl is black and she pops out a white, blonde baby... you should put the genetics book on the shelf and call Maury. If by some new age immaculate conception miracle the results come back that it can't be anyone else's but yours or gods you should keep those results in your back pocket because every time you introduce the kid as my son/daughter people are getting going to hit you with awkward silence or a pat on the back for having the gravitas to adopt the mailman's kid.
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If you're black and your girl is black and she pops out a white blonde baby, you should call the hospital and see if there's a confused white couple with a back baby.
