Is it from the father or mother's side that we inherit ...?

Question

the way our hair is- callics,texture,thickness,baldness ect...

Answer 1

Both! the human gene contains 46 chromosones and 26 is from your dad and 26 is from your mom!

Answer 2

My hair was thick and wavy and dark brown(just like my Mom's hair still is) before it disappeared very early. All my life people have said that my baldness(at 19, I'm 36 now.) was inherited from my mother. My Mother has no bald men in her family going back as many generations that we can find. My brother was bald at 22. My Father was bald at 18. My Grandfather was bald at 19. I only hope it skips my son. Inheritance is a crap shoot.

Answer 3

Hair is multigenic and various traits can be inherited from the mother and the father. With the exception of male pattern baldness which if due to androgen receptor gene (which is X-lined) tends to come through the maternal side, otherwise it is inherited through multigenic traits also from both parents.

Answer 4

Only genealogists have been able to unlock that secret... you get specific traits from your mom and others from your dad...say you have a child and your mom got stretch marks...honestly youre prolly gonna get em too.. but if ur a guy and ur dads bald but your grandpa didn't lose a bit of his hair you may not...it goes down a line and generally skips generation with each birth so its hard to determine what you will or will not get. Now they are developed some new ideaas and theories about how to create the ultimate child... inside the womb...they are doing studies and playing with it...I say if god wants you to be this way don't change it...he knows what hes doing..
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Answer 5

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Answer 6

At the tender age of about 19 my mother absolutely freaked when I came home from college and my hairline was beginning to receede. Had to see a doctor, she said. Well, to keep the peace over summer vacation, I did. The verdict was male pattern baldness. And, said the olde doctor, tell your mother it is inherited from her side of the family. Look at her brothers and you are seeing yourself at that age.

Answer 7

Depends on which allele is more dominant, I guess. E.g.

Let's say wavy (HH) is more dominant than straight (hh)
Parent: Mother Father
Phenotype : Wavy Straight
Genotype: Hh* hh
F1 genotype: Hh Hh hh hh
F1 phenotype: Wavy Wavy Straight Straight

* Mother carries a recessive allele for straight hair from her own parents.

I hope the example may clear things up bit better...

Answer 8

From both or either.

It used to be thought that baldness was inherited from the mother's side, but this idea has been discredited.

Answer 9

From both. Type of our hair is determined by many genes, one of them is at your mother and the other is at your father.
You inherit both, but it is a matter of dominance or co-dominance that determines its type. i.e your hair may be ,after you are born, like your father only or like your mother only or contains both characteristics. But you inherit both genes. Of course both of your parents dont have all the genes coding for all different types of hairs, thats why there is a variation between your hair and your friend's hair.

To brief up, you inherit both but what your hair looks like depends on the type of genes you inherited from both your parents. Like your mother. Like your father. Contains both characteristics. All depends on the type of genes you inherited from both.

Answer 10

which ever one has the dominate trait for hair. for example your mom has a dominate trait for red hair and your dad has a recesive trait of blond. you would more than likely come out with red hair. try four square.


D r
D| DD| Dr
r | rD | rr

if your parents have four children and the D is red hair and the r is blond, one kid will have red, one blond and those with a Dr can either have red or blond, but since red is dominate the chances of redheaded kids is more liekly.