2007-09-06 22:14:47 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
I'm not sure, but I think that means that there is a darker or a lighter gene in the family and it just wasn't the "dominant" gene in the parents. For example the child's grandparents and great-grandparents may have had a different skin color.
I've heard that if a mixed couple, black and white, have a baby the baby will maybe be white but when that baby grows up and has a child with a white partner their child may be black, because the parent had a black gene in them despite looking white.
2007-09-06 22:53:00 · answer #1 · answered by undir 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Same reason why a the parents can have dark hair adn the kids are blonde.
It's because the pareants have dominate geanes and RESSIVE geans. If the child gets the darker/lighter(usualy lighttrer) gean from BOTH parents, they will have the trait.
2007-09-07 00:15:27 · answer #2 · answered by Crazygirl ♥ aka GT 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am not sure how that works really. I had always heard that the child cannot be darker than the darkest parent but I still don't know if that is true or not.
2007-09-07 00:10:53 · answer #3 · answered by Patti C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but although I have light-brown hair and olive-green eyes now, until I was about 11 or 12 years old I had blue eyes and extremely blond hair.
2007-09-06 22:23:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋