just a silly question here x?

Question

if a female with ginger hair and a male with darkbrown/ almost black hair were to hve a kid what would be the hair colour of the kid x

originalB............? very funny! lol

Answer 1

More probably the darker colour, I think ginger is on the recessive gene. I wouldnt risk it though!!!!

Answer 2

If I remember correctly from high school biology it would depend on if the male carries a gene for red hair.

Assuming the guy does carry a gene for red hair, that means he would either pass on the dark gene or the red gene. The female would always pass the red gene because that's all she has. So in this case 1/2 of the kids would have a dark and a red gene giving dark hair and 1/2 would have two red genes giving red hair.

Assuming the guy doesn't carry a gene for red hair, you would have 100% kids with dark hair but all would carry a red hair gene.

This is an over simplified explanation but you should get the point.

Answer 3

Quite a complex genetics question here. You are likely to have a child with Ginger hair as this gene is quite dominant, but it depends on the nmix of genes from each of you. The black haired partner may have a ginger gene from an earlier forebearewr and presto Ginger kids. My friends have simialr situation, he is dark haired, they had a ginger boy and a strawberry blond girl.

Answer 4

Are you meaning that x = male child?

I would guess that ginger hair gene is strongest.

So perhaps it is likely that any child would have ginger hair, although they may have gorgeous auburn hair.

I would think you could produce a child with either ginger, dark hair or a mix of the two colours.

I don't go along with genetically modified anything so why no just go for the lucky dip!

Answer 5

I am ginger haired and the father of my kids has dark brown....my two kids are strawberry blonde. I have been told that the ginger gene is most dominant over any other hair colour.

Answer 6

More likely dark brown as ginger is a recessive gene. No guarantee though, take into consideration the grandparents hair colours too.

Answer 7

ginger is a resesive gene, it would be a dark haired child...hopefully...or that really beautiful super dark ginger. can't diss gingers too much, i appear to hav a thing abt them *thinks of her ex's* yup..so many gingers!
mind..i bread 2 black hamsters and they came out with a ginger one...so i guess its just the luck of the draw. i kno there's a formular 2 figure out the properpility, but i 'learnt' that about 5 yrs ago when i was amazingly stoned!

Answer 8

Well im a red head (natural) and my sons dad was dark brown/black and my son was born a red head. We arent a ginger we are more strawberry blonde but it dont matter what colour your children are they are still beautiful, my son had beautiful curly red hair and i wouldnt change it at all

Answer 9

It depends, briefly, ginger hair is a recessive gene, theres a chance that the male will also have the recessive gene so there's a possibility.

Answer 10

This all depends on many, many things. Like family genetics & everything. For example, my husband has red hair, I have dark brown, our 11 year old was blonde at birth & now has light brown hair. Our 9 year old was born with red, red hair & now he is strawberry blonde. Our 4 year old was born with brown hair, and now hes toe head blonde. And lastly our 9 month old was born with brown hair, and now her hair is darker red then her dads.
Not to mention he has blue eyes, and I hazel brown/ green. One has my eyes, one has his eyes + the blue from my grandmothers colored eyes, and 2 of our children have green/ grey/ blue eyes. Which is somewhat a combination of both our eyes.

So as you see ANYTHINGS POSSIBLE!!