I don't look like my parents?

Question

My mom has red hair, blue eyes and lot and lots of freckles.

My dad has brownish/red hair, green eyes and olive skin.

I have dark brown eyes, pale blonde hair and pale skin.

Why dont I look like either of them?

I know for a fact there my real parents.

Answer 1

brown eyes are dominant genes, blonde hair is most likely a recessive gene, so your parents probably have recessive blonde genes. Do any other relatives of your parents have blonde hair?

it is possible that you have completely different genes than your parents!

Answer 2

Often different genes can interact in a way that influences the same trait. In the blue-eyed Mary, for example, there exists a gene with alleles that determine the color of flowers: blue or magenta. Another gene, however, controls whether the flowers have color at all: color or white. When a plant has two copies of this white allele, its flowers are white — regardless of whether the first gene has blue or magenta alleles. This interaction between genes is called "epistasis", with the second gene epistatic to the first

Many traits are not discrete features (eg. purple or white flowers) but are instead continuous features (eg. human height and skin color). These "complex traits" are the product of interactions of many genes. The influence of these genes is mediated, to varying degrees, by the environment an organism has experienced. The degree to which an organism's genes contribute to a complex trait is called "heritability". Measurement of the heritability of a trait is relative, though — in a more variable environment, the environment has a bigger influence on the total variation of the trait. For example, human height is a complex trait with a heritability of 89% in the United States. In Nigeria, however, where people experience a more variable access to good nutrition and health care, height has a heritability of only 62%.

Answer 3

Do not be alarmed I come from a very large family, 9 boys and my self the only female. We all had dark hair and olive complexion except my baby brother and he had red hair and freckles. Twenty-two years later my older brother first child was red headed and freckles. His third child also had red hair and freckles. That was the end of the red heads and freckles. It has been 60 years. This gem could be passed on from your grandparents or your great grand parents.

Answer 4

Genetics is a random mix from your folks.
These factors I know:
"Freckles" generally indicates you got your pale skin from Mom.
"Blonde Hair" - you got two recessives. Red hair indicates a mix of blonde and other, you got two 'blonde`s.

Answer 5

Maybe there was a baby mix up at the baby nursing home place thing... it happens a lot... but seeing how you know for a fact they're real... well I don't know. I'm just talking.

Answer 6

haha. the "scientist" above me is funny. anyways, you may have gotten your genes from your grandparents or other descendents. Genes are able to skip generations. They can also able to lie dormant and then resurface many generations later.

Answer 7

You are in fact a genetic experiment like 'Kyle XY' and your parents are only there to raise you like, Claire on 'Heroes.'

no.....

Hmm?

Must be genentics in action...dang those recessed genes

Answer 8

genes are not necessarily got from parents,they can be passed don from grandparents etc.. sometimes it skips a generation. it's normal.

Answer 9

What does your mailman look like?

Answer 10

its codominance of genes which means they can mix