Can a blonde and a brunette have a kid with red hair?

Yes, as long as both carry the gene for red it is possible. If you carry one gene you don’t have red hair but you have a 50/50 chance of passing it on.

How do you know if your child will have red hair?

In order to be a redhead, a baby needs two copies of the red hair gene (a mutation of the MC1R gene) because it is recessive. This means if neither parent is ginger, they both need to carry the gene and pass it on — and even then they will have just a 25\% chance of the child turning out to be a redhead.

Does red hair come from Mom or Dad?

The gene for red hair is recessive, so a person needs two copies of that gene for it to show up or be expressed. That means even if both parents carry the gene, just one in four of their children are likely to turn out to be a redhead.

How do you inherit red hair?

Red hair is a recessive genetic trait caused by a series of mutations in the melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R), a gene located on chromosome 16. As a recessive trait it must be inherited from both parents to cause the hair to become red.

How rare is red brown hair?

What is this? Natural red hair is the rarest hair color in the world, only occurring in 1 to 2\% of the global population. Since red hair is a recessive genetic trait, it is necessary for both parents to carry the gene, whether or not they themselves are redheaded.

Can 2 brown haired parents have a redheaded baby?

The only way for your child to have red hair is if you have a recessive red gene (being covered by the dominant brown hair gene) and that is the gene that gets passed onto the baby.

Can redheads be born with brown hair?

People with red hair generally display the phenotype at birth (it is more likely for a redhead to go from having red hair at birth to a darker hair color as they age because you naturally produce more eumelanin as you mature).