two mixed race parents

[mollykins]

If a mixed race man who had a parent that was pale skinned, blonde, with blue eyes and the other was black with brown eyes and black hair, had kids with someone else with the same ethnicity parents just mentioned, could their child end up as any of the following?

1) blonde, blue eyed, with pale skin, 2) completely black with black hair and brown eyes, 3) a mid skin tone, but could this child have any combination of blue/brown eyes and blonde/black hair or would it have to have brown eyes and black hair?

[woofgang]

yes

[mollykins]

any of those, including darkish skin with blonde hair and blue eyes?

Would properly dark skin with blonde hair and blue eyes not be possible though?

[ummmm]

Molly...you know the answer to this question.

[hc4361]

http://www.dailymail....odds-million-one.html

All three is possible.

[jackthehat]

It's Wednesday tomorrow......................!!! :o)

[mccfluff]

jut reading that made my head hurt

i'm mixed race child and was told by the docs if i have children they will have blue skin and pink hair

[McMouse]

Man in wheelie-bin declares Pope to be a catholic.

[mollykins]

fluff you make no sense at all.

[Old_Geezer]

And the doc was right.

[McMouse]

That's very interesting fluff. I assume they will have red eyes?

[tamborine]

2:

http://www.google.co....IzSBA&ved=0CCAQ9QEwAQ

[mccfluff]

interstingly no, apparently as i have neon green eyes, there's will be yellow and orange

[jomifl]

None of the features that you mentioned is controlled by a single gene, the possible combinations after a second generation is mind boggling. However it is most likely that the offspring will be have mid brown colour skin, dark wavy or curly hair and brown eyes, just like you see every day.

[zzxxee]

in genetics anything is possible my eldest daughter is mixed race has dark hair eyes but very pale skin
a friend of hers the mum is white dad black child has blonde hair blue eyes but tight afro hair

[wildwood]

A varying mid skin tone. There are authentic cases of twins born from the one insemination where one was dark and one light but the skin colour mostly mixes well.

The hair varies but as most melanin is turned on with a dark skinned person, the hair will almost certainly be very dark.

The eye colour (brown or blue) concerns a recessive gene so works a bit different. Both children who become the parents of the next generation will have brown eyes but will carry the blue gene hidden (recessive). When these genes are mixed there are four possible outcomes. 25% brown, 50% brown carrying the blue allele and 25% will have blue eyes. Note there is no visual difference between brown and brown carrying blue. So, ¾ will have brown eyes and ¼ will have blue eyes.

[woofgang]

wildwood thats what the gene calculation says but the reality is that sometimes that's true and sometimes it isn't..the genetic makeup will be right but while actual eye/skin/hair colour is likely to be as you predict, it won't definitely be so.