Heritage??????

Question

My baby was born with brownish eyes looks like a tint of green and lots of brown hair... I have blond hair and green eyes i'm mostly german..and her dad has brown hair brown eyes...he's about 50 Italian 50 Will she ever turn blonde? will her yes always stay serbian brown?

Also, is it true that the babies take more of the dads genetics like hair color and and skin tone? Does she take more italian than german? how does that work? . Im asking b/c my baby doesn't look much like me... so much darker than me in every way.

Answer 1

Everyone gets exactly 50% of their genes from mom and exactly 50% from dad.

What they look like is determined by the combination mix of mom and dad's genes that the baby got.  Some traits are dominant and some are recessive.  Blonde hair is recessive....and it does not matter if the person is male or female.  Blonde hair is recessive in everyone.  s*x is not an issue.  So, if you gave your baby a gene for blonde hair and dad gave her a gene for brown hair, then she will have brown hair because that is dominant over blonde.  It would be the same had dad given the blonde gene and you gave the brown gene.  It is NOT true that "dads genes rule".  That is so ignorant.  Now, IF dad also carries a gene for blonde hair, he COULD have passed that on even though he has brown hair.  But, it sounds like you have mostly typically recessive genes (blond hair, blue eyes) and dad has typically dominant genes (dark hair, dark eyes).  So that is why your child looks like him.....NOT because he is a guy and "dads genes rule".  If you and your husbands features were switched around.......meaning you had the dark features and he had the lighter features then your child would look more like you.  Darker features tend to be dominant over lighter features.

The ONLY time s*x of the child plays a part in genetics is in regards to s*x-linked diseases.  Some diseases are carried on the X gene and some on the Y.  Whether or not the person gets the disease or is just a carrier will be determined by if they are girl (XX) or boy (XY).  It will vary from disease to disease which way it goes.

Answer 2

MOst of our DNA is autosomal and we get it 50-50 from both parents.  It determine our hair coloring etc.

You cannot just say your baby is going to have certain characteristic from you and certain characteristics from her father.  

Actually, my father had brown hair, blue eyes and was bothered my skin cancers later in life. and my mother had dark hair, brown eyes but her skin tones weren't very dark.  They both had a reddish hair parent with blue eyes and a dark hair parent with brown eyes.

I was born with red hair and blue eyes.   I had so many precancerous lesions on my face, the dermatologist gave me a chemo medicine to burn them off.  I looked like someone with radiation burns for awhile.

Both of my sisters were born with black hair that turned blonde.  I mean tow heads.  They tanned very well.  My younger has brown eyes.  My older had hazel eyes.  

Their hair coloring darkened as they got older.  Actually my younger sister's hair darkened some during her first pregnancy.As a child people were fascinated by her tow head, dark brown eyes and well tanned skin.

My older sister looked more like my mother's youngest sister than she did either one of my parents.  

Another thing your baby might have some appearances that neither you or her father have.  You both carry recessive genes which might not show up in your appearance but might show up in her.

Someone gave the above poster thumbs down. I don't know why.  It is a fallacy that two blue eyed people cannot have a brown eyed child.  This came from a phd in genetics who was on the staff of Texas A & M.  His brother also had a PHD and was on the staff of another large university.   A blue eyed person can have weak recessive brown eyed genes and when you combine those weak recessive brown eyed genes it is not impossible for them to produce a brown eyed child.  On the other hand a brown eyed person can have very strong recessive blue eyed genes and be brown eyed. Also a child can be darker than either parent if both parents carry recessive genes for darker pigmentation.  My father who was mostly Irish back down the generations had a speck of Spanish, Italian and French and my mother had some native American as well as Polish Jew.

Answer 3

I never heard of a baby born with brown eyes that turned blue. Little babies can have blue eyes that turn brown within the first few months, but not the other way around. Hair colour can change a lot within the first year though. My niece was born with black hair and at one year old, it's blond. It will probably go dark again like her dad's, but who knows. If your child still has dark hair by age one it's going to stay that way. Fair hair often turns darker as kids mature, but I never heard of a case of it turning lighter after the first year. Dark Italian genes can be very persistent over many generations, this is also the case in my family where the dark Swiss Italian colouring from my great grandfather still shows up even in great great grandchildren, even in branches of the family where the other side is all blond and blue eyed.

Answer 4

You get half your genes from your mom and half from your dad every time. You may look like one more than the other but that does not mean anything.  I look like my mom a lot my sister my dad.

As to her hair color and eyes they often change alot in the first year.  She probably will never be blond but it may lighten up or it may darken there is no way of knowing.  Most kids born with blond hair though their hair darkens .