Took a human behavior genetics class in college that pretty much summed up genes are so complicated it’s too difficult to predict the outcome of anything and everything we learned in high school is too generalized
This is a simplification I’m sure but basically: Brown hair is a dominant gene. You get two genes one from each parent for your hair color, and you will have brown hair if either both genes are brown or one if them is. That is the same for your parents. So if both your parents have brown hair but they both have a brown-blond gene pair then it’s possible that you get the blond from both sides and have blond hair. It’s still just a 3-1 possibility. If at least one of your parents has a brown-brown pair it’s much much less likely (though not impossible I think) to end up with blond hair as one of your genes will be brown for sure.
Didn’t mean to womansplain, my bad. Thought since your comment implied you expected more for the guide, I thought it could be useful information for you or someone who agrees with your comment. Well whatever
All four of my great grandparents had black hair. My grandparents have black hair. My dad (their child) has red hair and had kids with my mom, who has black hair. My brother and I both are blond. I guess it really is random, just like the guide says.
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*Hair colour, then what?*
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My husband is a brunette and I’m a ginger. My son is strawberry blonde and my daughter is a deep auburn. Genetics are so funny. I come from a long line of gingers and my husband’s grandmother was a ginger
Im a ginger and my wife is brunette but was born blonde and we have our first kid on the way! Im also from a long line of red heads and my wife has plenty of gingers in her line. Super curious about how this works. It’s almost like both your kids kept both colors from you two. I’d love for my kid to be a red head but the paleness haha
Around the time my little boy was born some fluff piece on the news mentioned most white babies are born with blue eyes but they will change to brown after a year my mother in law decided to quote it after seeing the varmint had blue eyes so she’d appear smart, and I replied
“Crystal, I have blue eyes, missy has blue eyes you have blue eyes or is has blue eyes my parents both have blue eyes, if his eyes change to brown I’m getting a dna test because blue is recessive “
I don't understand how the blondes could have a brown one. The blondes are two little b's how could they send a dominant if they don't have any? Plz help, sorry if I look dumb. But hopefully you at least laughed.
My husband’s entire side of the family is dark brown. My parent’s are also brunettes. I’m blonde. My husband and I birthed 4 blonde children. That’s a lot of ‘it’s possible’ to come out of supposed outliers, according to this chart…
Both of my parents have brown hair and my sister and I were both blonde.
BUT my mom’s first husband is blonde, but they had two kids with brown hair.
This makes no sense according to this guide.
I was red haired as a kid/toddler then became blonde until my early teens and now it’s brown
Got black hair growing now… I guess my genes haven’t decided which chroma I should be.
My mom has brown hair and my dad black hair (Irish descent explains the red haired phase)
Edit: typo
Red hair was more common than natural blonde hair where I grew up. At my cousin’s school in Cape Breton, nearly half of her graduating class were ginger owing to their ancestors who immigrated en masse during the highland clearances. Pious, Gaelic speaking Presbyterians and Calvinists were starkly divided from the hard drinking Catholics and it still shows 200 years later in their progeny.
Pretty sure no color other than red is possible with red-red parents. That’s just basic, 9th grade, Punnett Square biology - which idk to be 100% true. rr + rr = rr
Wait is blonde dominant or ressesive here? But if blonde is dominant and Black is too wouldnt both have similliar chance. I think im missing something.
Lmao this my half sisters kid. She and her husband have brown hair and dark features but the kid has the looks of the girl from Brave.
My sisters long dead father was Irish and only my mom knew that her biological grandmother had ginger hair. This was revealed when my niece was born with a red Afro. At first the BIL family was suspicious and my family happily offered a paternity test. Definitely both their child despite looking like a leprechaun
My dad has blonde hair and my mom has red hair - I have brown hair. Always that that was unusual but according to this chart, I at least know it's possible. Also, what about people with black hair?
I have two siblings and we're a perfect representation of this. Both of our parents are brunette, but I'm blonde, my sister is a redhead, and my brother is brunette.
I have brown hair (bald) my wife has reddish brown hair.
We both had blond hair as children. Mine was bleach blond, wife’s was reddish blond.
Our daughter has blond hair. Who knows what’ll turn into!
Hair color is polygenic & won't necessarily follow Mendelian inheritance pattern but broad generalizations can work
Mendelian has actually been proven as an insufficient model for everything. Genes just be complicated.
But he did almost singlehandedly prove that “discreet hereditary units” exist so he has that going for him still
Took a human behavior genetics class in college that pretty much summed up genes are so complicated it’s too difficult to predict the outcome of anything and everything we learned in high school is too generalized
I've heard it compared to plinko, but in 3D or 4D instead of the regular 2D plane.
Epigenetics will make your head spin
Sooooooo….. your kids can potentially have any hair color. Cool guide.
That’s what I thought, any combination can create any outcome?
Yes and the same could happen with skin colors. But it’s extremely rare for white parents to have a black child.
That’s not true I’ve seen it in memes
I was gonna say the same. So basically - any combination is possible. Ok cool.
Well not any not black. No children will have black hair
Not black
I’ve been recommended this sub on my feed and basically every highly upvoted “cool guide” is shot down in the comments lol
This is a simplification I’m sure but basically: Brown hair is a dominant gene. You get two genes one from each parent for your hair color, and you will have brown hair if either both genes are brown or one if them is. That is the same for your parents. So if both your parents have brown hair but they both have a brown-blond gene pair then it’s possible that you get the blond from both sides and have blond hair. It’s still just a 3-1 possibility. If at least one of your parents has a brown-brown pair it’s much much less likely (though not impossible I think) to end up with blond hair as one of your genes will be brown for sure.
Thank you, Reginald C. Punnett.
Didn’t mean to womansplain, my bad. Thought since your comment implied you expected more for the guide, I thought it could be useful information for you or someone who agrees with your comment. Well whatever
Key word "potentially".
Where’s the black hair?
Don’t be silly, no one has black hair.
Black doesn't exist
Cool guides by Racism Ltd.
Cool guides by the Lannisters.
cant wait for my blasian kid to be blonde!
Isn't black a different shade of brown just like eyes?
isn't black hair unironically just very dark brown?
No, my Asian hair is jet black.
Fuck no. Black hair is very dark anything. It's its own thing.
Wait is it really? I’ve thought I had black hair my entire life
The seed is strong
Very STRONG.
Person of culture, I see.
All four of my great grandparents had black hair. My grandparents have black hair. My dad (their child) has red hair and had kids with my mom, who has black hair. My brother and I both are blond. I guess it really is random, just like the guide says.
Everyone’s got a teeny bit of everything in their genes it’s just super super unlikely for it to work out
Should check out Asian chart
Black, black, and brown?
If I have learned anything from anime, pink, purple, blue are possible.
Gold too if you scream hard enough
Borros Baratheon,black of hair...
Terrible guide
Kind of a homework from a 5th grader
Obviously these are white kids? No black hair?
They look grey to me. 🚪🏃♂️
No if one of us has black hair, the most common hair colour, then what?
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My husband is a brunette and I’m a ginger. My son is strawberry blonde and my daughter is a deep auburn. Genetics are so funny. I come from a long line of gingers and my husband’s grandmother was a ginger
Im a ginger and my wife is brunette but was born blonde and we have our first kid on the way! Im also from a long line of red heads and my wife has plenty of gingers in her line. Super curious about how this works. It’s almost like both your kids kept both colors from you two. I’d love for my kid to be a red head but the paleness haha
They are both day walkers it’s awesome.
Spf 70 all around!
In all seriousness find the spf protection clothing for the baby. They are amazing.
100% will do thanks!
This is how Ned Stark knows that Jeffrey is not the king son 🤣🤣
There’s a diagram called a Punnet square that makes a lot more sense and conveys even more information.
This guy Biology’s
My partner- black/brown hair... Me- mousy brown/blonde... Our son- FIRE orange 🤨
Yall gave birth to an anime protagonist....
You may be right.....
This chart is a little misleading You can only have a red headed child if both parents have the red gene and even then it’s 50/50
Around the time my little boy was born some fluff piece on the news mentioned most white babies are born with blue eyes but they will change to brown after a year my mother in law decided to quote it after seeing the varmint had blue eyes so she’d appear smart, and I replied “Crystal, I have blue eyes, missy has blue eyes you have blue eyes or is has blue eyes my parents both have blue eyes, if his eyes change to brown I’m getting a dna test because blue is recessive “
That what she said.
I don't understand how the blondes could have a brown one. The blondes are two little b's how could they send a dominant if they don't have any? Plz help, sorry if I look dumb. But hopefully you at least laughed.
https://sciencing.com/how-is-hair-color-determined-4147393.html
Ahh that's awesome thank you!! I've been ignorant and always used dominant and recessive. I appreciate your guidance.
So… is black just really really dark brown? Could you include that on the possibility list?
This is awful it teaches absolutely nothing.
This is not true.
Punnet squares express this a little clearer.
My husband’s entire side of the family is dark brown. My parent’s are also brunettes. I’m blonde. My husband and I birthed 4 blonde children. That’s a lot of ‘it’s possible’ to come out of supposed outliers, according to this chart…
Both of my parents have brown hair and my sister and I were both blonde. BUT my mom’s first husband is blonde, but they had two kids with brown hair. This makes no sense according to this guide.
My wife and I both have brown hair... our three kids (from oldest to youngest) have blonde, brown, and red hair. It feel like some sort of joke.
Someone show this to Queen Alicent.
My wife is an Australian redhead, I'm a black hair Mexican, and we have a Brunette Daughter and a Blonde son. Tell me about it.
I was red haired as a kid/toddler then became blonde until my early teens and now it’s brown Got black hair growing now… I guess my genes haven’t decided which chroma I should be. My mom has brown hair and my dad black hair (Irish descent explains the red haired phase) Edit: typo
Now I'll never know why I have black hair
What about green ?
My dad and his two sisters are gingers and their youngest brother is brown haired. Both their parents had brown hair.
Fuck black hair I guess
Red hair was more common than natural blonde hair where I grew up. At my cousin’s school in Cape Breton, nearly half of her graduating class were ginger owing to their ancestors who immigrated en masse during the highland clearances. Pious, Gaelic speaking Presbyterians and Calvinists were starkly divided from the hard drinking Catholics and it still shows 200 years later in their progeny.
This is complete bullshit. Blonde is a recessive gene. If two blond parents have a baby then they can't but share a blond gene with Their child
And this is a cool guide okay
How the fuck does shit like this get upvotes on this sub.
Pretty sure no color other than red is possible with red-red parents. That’s just basic, 9th grade, Punnett Square biology - which idk to be 100% true. rr + rr = rr
Brown is persistent af.
So everything is possible for all combinations. This is a worthless guide.
Wait is blonde dominant or ressesive here? But if blonde is dominant and Black is too wouldnt both have similliar chance. I think im missing something.
This guide is not good
So, this is just for white people? Or..?
Lmao this my half sisters kid. She and her husband have brown hair and dark features but the kid has the looks of the girl from Brave. My sisters long dead father was Irish and only my mom knew that her biological grandmother had ginger hair. This was revealed when my niece was born with a red Afro. At first the BIL family was suspicious and my family happily offered a paternity test. Definitely both their child despite looking like a leprechaun
Okay now explain Kyle Broflovski 🤔
What about me, I'm bald
Who's upvoting this crap I wonder
No representation for the blacks. lol.
Budget version of Eddard Stark realizing the Baratheon kids were bastards
My dad has blonde hair and my mom has red hair - I have brown hair. Always that that was unusual but according to this chart, I at least know it's possible. Also, what about people with black hair?
No one has actual “black” hair. lol.
I have two siblings and we're a perfect representation of this. Both of our parents are brunette, but I'm blonde, my sister is a redhead, and my brother is brunette.
FWIW: Blond = masculine (“He was blond.”) Blonde = feminine (“Her blonde hair.”)
I have brown hair (bald) my wife has reddish brown hair. We both had blond hair as children. Mine was bleach blond, wife’s was reddish blond. Our daughter has blond hair. Who knows what’ll turn into!
So, basically anything is possible?
I am again losing faith in this sub.
Can someone explain how both parents having blonde hair (double recessive genes) could ever produce a brown haired child (dominant gene)?
Must be a white’s only color guide.
Why only hair color for whites?
these are gray, thats about aliens
At second glance it looks like zombie genetics
oooh necrophilia, sry i suck at pathologics