My hair color is a mixture of theirs. It's lighter than my dads but darker than my moms.
2006-10-25 09:25:02 · 13 answers · asked by Mandi L 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Because some of the genes for hair color are dominant, some are recessive, and some are codominant. Your dark haired father can easily have some recessive genes for lighter hair colorings, and they have still been dominant over your mother's genes for still lighter color. Or your father's expressed genes are codominant with your mother's. You could also have wound up with hair even lighter than your mom's, if both of your parents had recessive genes for such a color.
2006-10-25 09:28:36 · answer #1 · answered by DavidK93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genetics, hair color comes from several genes. This is why there are a range of colors, not just 2 or 3.
2006-10-25 09:34:18 · answer #2 · answered by rocketman9070 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason is that hair color comes from proteins that is amplified by the dominant alleles. So since U have half ur dads hair and half ur moms, U make proteins based on both of them. So U make half the proteins that ur dad makes to get black hair, and ur DNA makes half the proteins that ur mom makes to have brown hair. Simple ain't it?
2006-10-25 09:31:48 · answer #3 · answered by Ali A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you have blonde hair it will naturally get bleached by the particular sun in the summer. There has been this guy in my class who else had golden blonde hair that had been a medium brown near the bottom. When he came back to college after summer vacation, it was almost platinum blonde!
2017-02-27 18:34:40 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most traits are complex, meaning they are controlled by more than one gene. It just means that some of the hair color alleles/traits that you got from your mom allow expression or repression of those contributed by your dad (or vice versa).
Be aware your hair can darken as you get older and is affected by environmental factors. Look at baby pictures of yourself and your parents and see if you matched then.
2006-10-25 12:23:47 · answer #5 · answered by Shanna J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your parents carry a set of genes. You get a set from each parent. Your dad has black hair. (We will label him B) Your mom has brown hair. (We will label her b) You inherited a gene from each parent (Bb) which gives you a mix. One of your parents are carrying a gene that causes you to have your color.
Example: your dad could have either combination: BB or Bb
(BB is solid black with no mix - Bb is solid black but carrying a mix)
your mom - bb for brown
Your combination must be the mix of both.
2006-10-25 09:33:27 · answer #6 · answered by sallydog 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because you are a mixture of them... You can also get hair color from your grandparents.
2006-10-25 09:32:26 · answer #7 · answered by Kamunyak 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your grandparents also play a role in the color of the hair you have. either that or you are adopted, just kidding.
2006-10-25 09:32:51 · answer #8 · answered by ysomebody 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Recessive or throwback genes. In other words,your great great great great great grandma may of had your shade of hair.
2006-10-25 09:33:43 · answer #9 · answered by Mandy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well you're half your mom and half your dad right?
so it makes sense that you're in between them both.
2006-10-25 09:33:23 · answer #10 · answered by ciaragw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋