What hair color would our kids have if my boyfriend and I had a kid?

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Amber

I have red hair and my boyfriend has dark brown hair. We are comparing if our child would have red hair (like its momma) or dark brown hair (like its daddy). We both have brown eyes and thick hair. What hair color will show up on our child if we have a child together? His dad is dark brown hair and his mom has light brown hair and my mom has blonde hair and my dad has black hair.

Answer
Human hair colour inheritance is very complicated and it involves something like 6 different genes, if my memory serves me correctly. Therefore it's very random and hard to determine with any uncertainty. If I were a human genetics specialist I might be able to give you a better idea, but I think it's unlikely that the child will have red hair, as it has a tendency to 'skip' generations, as it were. Dark brown is most likely, but they could still potentially have quite light brown hair.

Just wait and see! :)

Can a mother with red hair and a father with blonde hair?

Jack-o-Lan

have these children?

1.A daughter with black hair
2.A son with blonde hair
3.A son with red hair

please only answer if you know, or post a site where i can find out.
i will choose best answer!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
she cheated on him!?

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light hair is recessive, dark is dominant.
both mother and father have light,
daughter 1 is dark haired.

i dont think it was possible.

Answer
Firstly, hair colour (unlike curly or straight hair) does not work in the dominant/recessive way.

Hair colour is mainly determined by the amount of eumelanin the hair has. Higher amount of eumelanin makes darker hair. Red hair has more eumelamin than blonde hair, and black hair has the most eumelanin.

The amount of eumelanin in the hair depends on many genes. To put it simply...we can say it depends on how much "ON" and "OFF" eumelamin genes the hair has.

A child will inherit 50% of his/her eumelamin genes from mom and 50% from dad. If in total, the child inherit more of the "ON" eumelamin genes, he/she will get darker hair colour. On the other hand, if in total, the child inherit more of the "OFF" eumelanin genes, his/her hair will be in a lighter shade.

Secondly, hair colour is not a sex-linked inheritance, so it will not matter if child is female or male.

Hope this helps.

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