what are the characteristics that are passed from a parent to thier natural child?

Answer 1

Usually around 50% of each parent. However sometimes genes can skip a few generations or your child may have an entirely new characteristic.

Answer 2

If a baby is breast fed, they get certain immunities from their mother. Then they can pick up all sorts of friendly bacteria from the parents' skin. While they are in the womb they can become addicted to drugs or affected by alcohol, stress etc. At conception they get not only their dominant, but also their recessive genes (DNA), which may include mutations such as Down's Sundrome. We are only just discovering the role of recessive genes, which we now know can affect certain syndromes such as floppy baby syndrome.

The good thing is that evolution takes care of most things and has done so for a very long time, so we can be natural and allow nature to take its course. The best thing about a baby born to you is recognising little things passed from one generation to another.

We have an adopted child in our family, who now has a child of her own. A lot of the characteristics of the mother we did not recognise, are now evident in her daughter. Had the mother been a genetic member of our family we might have picked up on some things we missed and solved a lot of problems earlier on. It is difficult to know if a child's behaviour is part of their character, or if they are choosing to be that way. When it is someone who is part of your family, you tend to say "Oh that is just like Aunty ....., she always got in a grumpy mood at Christmas"
If a child doesn't know its family, or part of its family, how are they to know if their charactericistics are just part of their biology or something strange and unique to them?

Answer 3

the only thing we get for sure from our parents are the 31 chromosomes which we get off each parent (unless there is a deformity like downs which have 32 chromosomes). These chromosomes however have millions of strands of DNA and RNA in each, these can contain genes from generations ago so although we make up our children they don't necessarily have to be anything like us. It is the luck of the draw. Certain traits can be hereditary though like for instance not everybody can curl their tongue, if you can do this then you have the gene for it, if you cant then chances are you never will be able to as you need the gene for it. Things like eye colour and blood types can be predicted too if you have the history of the mother/father.

Answer 4

hereditary characteristics. You will have some of your moms physical characteristics and some of your dads (eg hair colour, eye colour and height). The child was also get varying degrees of hereditary disease conditions (severeness depending on whether the genes are dominant or recessive and which parents carry them)

Answer 5

Characteristics like, height, weight, eye colour, nose, face, and intelligence but not all are genetic some can change due to enviroment and lifestyle.

Answer 6

Your child does not become a clone of a mixture of both parents.
It can differ through generation, many inherit genes from grandparents, and many traits are passed through but you can't even notice them!

Answer 7

Characteristics are a learned behaviour and so we pass on those that are used most often. They are as wide and varied as people themselves.

Answer 8

Anything that might be relevant to survival. Otherwise life wouldn't have survived on this planet for four billion years.

Answer 9

it changes person to person children donT have to imitatate their parent but could be a copy of them too...

Answer 10

They may look alike or they may have same behavior and they may have same thinking power etc....