How likely is it that an inter-racial couple would have one completely white child and one completely dark one

Question

HOW LIKELY IS IT THAT ONE CHILD WOULD LOOK COMPLETLEY LIKE A WHITE PERSON AND THE OTHER COMPLETELY DIFFERENT?

DARK MEANING FOR EXAMPLE AFRICAN OR ASIAN.

WHITE MEANING SCANDINAVIAN

Answer 1

I have three interacial children and they are all different colours.one boy is darker than the other and has darker eyes and my daughter looks white with hazel eyes but dark hair.She has trouble convincing others she is mixed raced.I think the facial features of interacial children are sometimes more prominant than just the colour.

Answer 2

Skin colour is determined by genes that were classically studied under poly genic inheritance: that is one gene (or factor) contributes to one degree or shade so that you find the very pale or fair caucasoid in one end of the spectrum while the very dark or negroid skin colour becomes the opposite end of the spectrum and you find all sorts of combination in between. In Drosophila genetics the same thing applies to the eye colour as maroon, buff, scarlet, pink, etc. Tallness to a certain extent is also determined by similar criteria, though dwarfs or midgets may have some other reason for their shortness like deficiency in pituitary secretion and such.

Answer 3

I know in the past couple of years a woman had a set of twins - one white one black. I don't know what the actual statistics are of that occurring or the odds of an interracial couple having lighter skinned or darker skinned children. Obviously, genes will play a big role in that.

Answer 4

This can happen depending with the genes of the parents it depends who provides the genes of the colour and there is also a woman in Scotland who gave birth to twins,the other one was white with blue eyes and the other one was black with brown eyes.

Answer 5

Remember a story in the Sun, I think with a white girl who had a black hand. She sneered for the camera, maybe she was told to by the paparazzi (it was the mid eighties, when such newspapers hated everyone except royalty). God knows where she is now, but the paper got some rent-a-quote doc telling us she will suffer in years to come.

Answer 6

It's rather unlikely, but I believe it has happened before, depending on your definition of "dark".

Yeah, then it has happened, I believe a couple in New Zealand had fraternal twins where this was the case.

Answer 7

50% 50%. Do the pea chart that they teach you in Biology. The Mendel Pea Chart.

But based on what i've noticed, if a bi-racial couple gets together and has a child, its usually the first child that is the lightest and the second that is slightly darker in pigmentation (or slightly redder pigmentation.)

Answer 8

Not possible unless someone played around. Even then a dark parent could never have a white child.

Answer 9

it has happened with twins in the parental situation where one parent is white and the other is black, when the twins have been born instead of being both the same one is white and one is black.

Answer 10

Practically impossible. Things like that only happen on TV, specifically on reruns of the Jeffersons...