How can someone who is half black be so dark?

Question

I'm half black, half white, my dad is white, my mom is black.

I'm pretty dark, about as dark as the average full black person.

My brother and sister are both fairly light skinned and have brown hair, resembling the average half black/white person.

Any detailed thoughts or explanations?

does being first born have anything to do with it?

Answer 1

skin tone can vary and black is a dominate skin pigment when compared to white.  Black people do tan too and will get darker if you spend lots of time in the sun.

Answer 2

The black gean is stronger than the white so it takes over. Just like koeran or anything like that.

Answer 3

Genes can't mix, you either get one or the other... Or a grandparent's gene.

Answer 4

i think the 1st born generally resemble the mother but it varies a lot. even if ur an only child, being very dark-skinned w/ an inter-racial set of parents ; it will just vary. If u r full white and have 17 nationalities, are all the ethnic nationalisms going to be obvious? it's just genetics; ur darker skin gene is a dominant trait unlike ur lighter-skinned recessive trait:)

Answer 5

It can happen, genetics.

But if the person has both parents mixed there is a great chance that if they have 4 children, 2 of them will be mixed, one will be pure black and the other one pure white. If there is someone in the family that has curly hair then it's because someone has curly hair in your family that you might not know of. All of my family members have straight her except 3 of my cousins. Yet both parents have straight hair.

Answer 6

It's just your genetic background. My mom is white, and my dad's black. My siblings and I all have what people call 'yellow skin'. My two brothers have wavy/straight hair, and my sister and I have kinky, curly hair. (I straighten mine). I have a friendly friend who's mom is black, and his dad is white. He has fuzzy black hair, but he looks white. Really white! It just depends on your genes. Hop I helped!  

Answer 7

You have to think about genetics correctly to understand this. Let me try to explain.

If you Dad was 6 foot tall and you mother was 4 foot tall. You would not necessarily be right in the blended middle. 5 foot tall. The same thing applies for skin color.

Things that you can observe in a person or an animal can be called called traits. Traits are decided by the DNA and the information it contains. A section of information controling one peticular trait is called a gene. Genes are just blocks of information or a sentance in a much longer book.

Genes can be turned on and off by a number of different ways.

Some include amplification, inversion, deletion, insertion, or transposition.  These are just fancy words for the way the set of pre-existing intructions are made availible for reading or stored for later use.

Some of this may be random but much is also a carfully controled sequence of events. These events are controled by specific enzymes. The triggers that turn on and off these events are poorly understood.

Because of these aspects of genes described above, even though you have one light parent and one dark parent we can see that it is more than a blending of "ingredients" but more a choice of which "ingredients" to turn on and off.

    God designed the living world like this for a very special reason. Instead of making a kind of animal that can only survive in one type of enviroment or making a generic kind that can survive in many enviroments but not so well in one peticular enviroment, He ,in His incredible foreknowledge, made on and off switches avalible to plants and animals. So they can always have specialized traits avalible in a certain enviroment and if the enviroment changes, they can switch and express other specilized traits to survive in a different enviroment.

    Some people that follow the religion of naturalism would have you believe that all these specialized traits and differences are the result of accidental mutations to an animals informational DNA. They would say that one letter in a 3 billion letter long book changed and somehow that made new words, new sentances, new paragraphs, and entirely new chapters. Knowing anything of information theory of just having common sense would tell you that this is false.

All the information is in the plant or animal from the begining and is turned on and off by carefully controled proccesses. This would also acount for the  "junk DNA" that we find.  And especially the "junk DNA" similarities between different species. It probably is just unexpressed information, waiting to be cut, inverted and transposed into use. Thinking of "junk DNA" is probably like Charles Darwin saying a cell is "just a simple sac of protoplasm."  When will we ever learn.

Answer 8

it's just how your genes were organized it happens.

Answer 9

this is what i remember from the genetics chapter in biology 2020. Genetics come from both parents and 4 grandparents. best answered by example. A couple both black or both white have 6 kids compared to a couple that is 1 black, 1 white, or even both biracial having 6 kids. The biracial family has a way more diverse gene pool, so the kids can look like either end of the spectrum or anywhere in between. But dont quote me, but i think because white and black r so opposite is y most biracial people meet kind of smack dab in the middle. So my answer is if your parents keep having more kids u might end up with a sibling who looks just like u and even 1 that looks mostly white. the domonent gene is what u will c most. Black is not your families dominant gene. most likely both colors are equal. My aunt is black w/ 6 sisters, all dark skinned (milk chocolate to dark chocolate) non light complected or carmel. Our family has super strong genes, like when i'm out in public strangers will ask if my last name is ______, and it always is. Anyway Her husand is white. they have 3 children together. The 1st 2 r obviously mixed w/ curly hair only one's hair is slightly darker than the other. If they were same s*x u would think they were twins, but they r not. their fetures really dont match mom or dad. The 3rd child looks 100% white with blonde hair. (split image of Jessica Simpson)

Better visual:

mom: Naomi Cambell

dad: richard Geer

child 1: Christina Milian

child 2: male version of Christina Milian

child 3: Jessica Simpson

isnt that neet

Answer 10

Because your mother's genes are more dominant than your father's.

Answer 11

it all depends on how many genes you got from the color factory. my friend is black but she has the personality of a white person. i have another friend with the personality of a black person but the skin of a white person. they're both amazing people it just depends on your genes

Answer 12

Usually darker genes dominate. My father is as fair as it gets, and my mother so dark people have mistaken her for black. Just be yourself. I was watching "Tyra" last week and they were discussing how mixed people felt about each other. I came away feeling it was the people who were nice and kind that I cared about. Really, it's not who's lighter or darker, it's personality and character that matters.

Answer 13

I think your mother's "darkness" or genes may determine that. Like someone else mentioned, black/African genes, or any "dark" gene, is typically dominant to any other. But, I've noticed that how some bi-racial couples have children whose "coloring" results in a gradation of sorts. The eldest child will be darker with kinkier hair, while younger siblings are lighter with straighter hair...It all depends on your mother's racial make-up (whether she has more African ancestry), than say if she were of lighter complexion (more Caucasian or mixed ancestry).

Answer 14

i think wen u were born first you mothers genes were more stronger then your dads so you were darker like your mom and not as light as your dad..

Answer 15

genetics were you grandparents dark too

Answer 16

black over powers cause its such a strong colors

Answer 17

being first doesn't have anything to do with it, you just take after your mom's side of the family : )

Answer 18

your dad had recessive genes for that skin tone, your mom had dominant genes for that skin tone. obviously you got all of the dominant and none of the recessive, even if you did get the recessive it would be the same, cuz dominant trumps recessive......get it? hope this helps!