A question of Biology.

Banjo013

If a child is born and one of its parents is black, will the child automatically be black ?

And does anyone know why my brain doesn't function until stupid hours of the night, like now at 12.58am for example, and sleeps all day ?

Thanks in advance ! :rolleyes:

OY

Banjo013 wrote:

If a child is born and one of its parents if black, will the child automatically be black ?

Not the best source for material in the universe I know but I was watching Maury the other day and he was doing the same thing he does every day... paternity tests!!

Anyway, there was this white girl who was sleeping with a white guy and the baby she had was veeery black. So of course the guy freaks out and their relationship goes to hell. Long story short, she insists it is his, gets the test and it was his child. And everyone was shocked and he felt like a d***!

So I do not know the answer to your question but I guess there are exceptions to every rule.

idontknowmyname

i read an article a few years ago bout a black couple who had a white son....he had blonde curly hair too.....looked mad cause his facial characteristics were of a black child...........but it can happen

Nando19

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2797369.stm

Court rules on father of IVF mix-up twins

The High Court ruling decided legal paternity A black man has been named as the legal father of mixed race twins born to a white couple after an IVF mix-up. The High Court has previously declared that the man, known only as Mr B, is the twins' biological father. His sperm was mistakenly used to fertilise the eggs of a white woman after a blunder at Leeds General Infirmary.

Kevin_rc_ie

i'm reluctant to post because i actually don't know the answer but i will say some hopefully helpful information.

basically genes are responsible for our appearance or phenotype. sometimes there can be some options for a particular gene. for example, the gene for eye colour, it can be blue or brown. however, it's not 50-50 probablilty. one allele (an option) can be dominant or recessive. the brown gene is dominant over the blue one, so if u mix ppl with a brown eye colour gene and a blue eye colour gene, you get a person with brown eyes more often then blue.

Brown X
Blue Y
Parent 1 XX Parent two XY
Offspring can be either XX, XY, XX, XY. Because X is dominant over Y, the offspring will display the XX phenotype - brown eyes.

Parent 1 XY Parent 2 XY
Offspring can be XX, XY, XX, YY. 3 of the 4 offspring will have brown eyes and one will be blue (YY phenotype).

Ok, on topic,

It depends how many genes are responsible for skin colour (probably many). And depends on where this gene is located (too complex for me to explain).And which are dominant and which are resesssive ( i don't actually know). But my instinct tells me if a person with a high white heredity and a person with a strong black heredity mated and had offspring they would likey be a kinda mixed colour. (remember earlier example, brown eyes + blue eyes does not end in mixture, not a browny green and not one brown and one blue,it's either or). However, because in this case some genes could have the brown phenotype and some the white phenotype.

My guess, it's not impossible for 1 black person and 1 white person to have a very white kid. It's more likely they'll be black.

Also, as in white ppl, albino's exist in black ppl, this is where there's been a accident for encoding proper pigmentation. So you get someone with black characterics but without the black colour.