dominant race

[SCARFACE]

ok, here is my question : if a black marries an asian the outcome is black , if an asian marries a white the outcome is asian. whats the dominant race? why is it so?

[bernardo]

It is not so.  It is common for a black/white mix to produce a pale (brown) skin-colour, and sometimes (very rarely) white).  A brown/white mix would produce a shade of brown paler than the original brown.

[Bob Carter]

Ticklish area this when you talk about dominant 'race'. Recommend you find yourself a good book about genetics. But basically skin colour, like anything else, obeys some basic rules laid down by Mendel's Law in the late 19th century. From memory of my biology O level, and I'm prepared to be put right on this, he studied fruit flies (drosophila). Say you have a fly with black legs mated with one with white legs and the dominant gene is for black legs. Four of the offspring have black legs. Two have grey legs. Two have white legs. The trouble with human skin colour is that it is not just one gene that determines it, it is many, and a gene that turns on, say, very dark skin colouring, might have another completely unrelated effect elsewhere in the body. So if races mix we don't just get light coffee coloured people ... we get all sorts and generations down the line a recessive gene can get in just the combination it needs to come back and somebody turns up in a family a very surprising colour. They used to be called 'throwbacks' . So it is pretty much impossible to say that one race, in a genetic sense, is dominant. For which many thanks to the creator. Hope this helps.

[Ewood27]

Mendel in a nutshell:

 

There was a young lady named Starkey

Who had an affair with a darkie.

The result of her sins

Was four sets of twins,

Two black, two white and four khaki.

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[j2buttonsw]

Gregor Mendel was a Augustinian monk  who studied pea plants. Drosophila are used in upper school genetics experiments.

[5029]

what do you mean by the "outcome" of the marriage?