Like what passes over to the baby as far as your genes.. like if did any changes to your body, would it change your genes for it to take effect into the baby?.
2006-09-02 15:04:13 · 4 answers · asked by VIC-RIDA 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Trying to Conceive
Your child will inherit half of its genes from you and half from your spouse. The only changes to your body that carry into the genes are exposure to some chemicals and to radiation.
If, for example, you and your husband are blondes but you both dye your hair black, the child will be born blond. If one of you lost a foot in a chainsaw accident, the child will not be born with a foot missing. If you and your husband are short, your child will probably be short. Eye color, hair color, skin color, stature, ear shape, nose shape - all are inherited through genes.
Some are either/or. Blue eyed parents have blue-eyed kids, Brown-eyed parents with blue eyes in their ancestors have brown and blue eyed kids.
Some are blends. Children of a black-skinned parent and white-skinned parent come out colored like coffee with a lot of cream in it.
If your husband was exposed to Agent Orange in Viet Nam, your child may be deformed.
If you do heroin, meth, weed or a lot of alcohol when the child is inside you, it will be born brain-damaged. It might be retarded, it might just be stupid. They haven't run exact tests to see how much does what; they have just noticed that children of mothers who do drugs are born brain-damaged. That has nothing to do with genes. If Albert Einstein had a fling with Gertrude Elion, and she drank heavily while pregnant, the child would be born stupid, despite the fact both parents had IQ's well above 200.
If you don't do drugs, and stay clear of chemical plants and radiation leaks, there is a 90% chance your child's IQ will be the average of yours and your husband's.
2006-09-02 16:04:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You actually have 46 chromosomes - 2 sets of 23 chromosomes (one from your mom, one from your dad). 22 of these sets are normal chromosomes, and the final set contain your sex chromosomes.
Your baby gets half of your 46 chromosomes - one sex chromosome and one randomly assorted chromosome from each of the other 22 pairs. Your baby's other 23 chromosomes come from the father. Whether the father gives an X chromosome or Y sex chromosome determines whether the child will be a girl (X) or boy (Y).
Any changes your body has undergone - before or after the conception of your child - will not be transferred to the baby. Genes are actually pretty stable - obvious changes in your body are not due to changes in genes! (I'm simplifying things a bit)
2006-09-02 15:57:03 · answer #2 · answered by maguire1202 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can not do anything on the type and the quality of the genes that you can pass on to your child. It is all by chance and is to a certain extent governed by certain principles of genetics. However, genes good or bad are all passed on and it will depend on the other factors which may make the passed on gene to manifest or lie dormant or hidden.
2006-09-04 08:55:27 · answer #3 · answered by ingos 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they baby gets whatever genes you have to start with if you do somthing to change your badyt i don't think the baby will get that
2006-09-02 20:05:08 · answer #4 · answered by Lisa K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋