I have red hair. I know this is an oversimplification, but to my understanding there is a set of at least 3 gene sets which deal with hair color. Brown/blond (blond recessive) non-red/red (red recessive) and a set dealing with how dark the color is (all dark makes black hair)
My mother has blond hair (Bl-Bl/Nr-R/20% dark), my dad has black hair (Br-Br/Nr-R/100% dark) I ended up inheriting both resessive reds to end up with a copper-red hair (Br-Bl/R-R/60% dark) Yet a few of my hairs on my arms, or legs grow in pitch black. How does this happen? Is some of my cells dna actually slightly different than other cells?
2006-09-19
09:37:04
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