Why do I have blonde hair when my parents have brown hair?

Brunettes Can Give Birth To Blondes If one parent is blonde and the other brunette, they might have a blonde child. This can only happen if the brunette parent carries the blonde allele. If he carries only brown alleles, he can only pass on brown alleles, and they’ll dominate causing his child to have brown hair.

What nationalities have blonde hair and blue eyes?

Scandinavian regions such as Finland, Sweden and Norway. North Eastern Slavic regions also have the blond hair and blue eyes in their genetics, countries such as Poland, Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.

Is hair color inherited from the mother or father?

Each trait consists of two alleles, one from your Mother and one from your Father, they may be the same or they may be different. The most common gene which controls the color of our hair is a brown/blonde gene, which consists of a dominant brown allele and a recessive blonde allele.

Why do I have different hair colors as my siblings?

It is a totally random process which alleles a baby receives and explains why you are highly unlikely to have the exact same shade of hair color as any siblings.

How can two parents with brown hair have a blonde child?

It also explains why two parents with brown hair can produce a child with blonde hair, as they both possess recessive blonde alleles in their genes, and as it is completely random which ones are passed on in the womb.

Are there any white twins with a biracial mother?

Twins Lucy and Maria Aylmer have a white father and a biracial mother. Twins Kendall and Baylee with their parents, Curtis Martin and Rebecca Horton. Twins Marcia and Millie Biggs with their parents. Or how about these sisters that both had twins? Or these guys? Here they are as infants with their mother. And a bit older..