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question about myrtle

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HiYa_Bio
Posted 3/11/2013 9:28:37 PM
i think she is adopted, mother is white and dad is black but she is as white as her mum, so either she was adopted or the dad was a step dad OR the mother cheated with some other white guy and got knocked up. Just saying.
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TohruAdachi
Posted 3/11/2013 9:42:42 PM
Well depends. My bro's teacher her and her husband were black but there child was white apparently cause it dates back to their ancestors or whatever
American_Eagle0
Posted 3/11/2013 9:42:58 PM
oh mah gawd karen you cant just ask people white they are white
matdrac
Posted 3/11/2013 9:46:56 PM
Either 1) the devloper din't want to complicate themsef by chosing the coleur she is.

2) Genetic still have many mysteries. Did you know that genetic information are keep in the genes for many generation? So if you and your wife are white as snow, but one of you had a ancestor who's black, there is a probability that your child may end up black? The probability of this is low though, like 0,000001% but it happened before, it can again.
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jerky_666
Posted 3/11/2013 10:22:26 PM
So what's the question?

The title of this topic is very misleading. I came for questions, but found only your deep insightful answers.

I want questions, and I want them now!
Nasteeman
Posted 3/15/2013 12:15:56 AM

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Dad is black, mother is white, their kid is white, nothing unusual in that at all, happens every day.
That's just the way genetics works, You can inherit some or all of one or both your parents characteristics or any combination thereof. You may get all your racial and other characteristics from neither of your parents and get them from someone else in the family, like a grandparent or even an aunt or uncle or someone even further removed. The closer related you are the more likely you will inherit from them, like your parents are the best bet, but it its not a 100% guarantee. For example, both parents can have black hair and brown eyes, and they can still have a child with red hair and blue eyes simply because one of the parents had a relative that had red hair and blue eyes. It really can be a crapshoot.
Gxgear
Posted 3/15/2013 12:41:07 AM
matdrac posted...

2) Genetic still have many mysteries. Did you know that genetic information are keep in the genes for many generation? So if you and your wife are white as snow, but one of you had a ancestor who's black, there is a probability that your child may end up black? The probability of this is low though, like 0,000001% but it happened before, it can again.


Not sure if you made up that example quickly so you didn't think about it, but it's wrong for several reasons:

-Race is a social construct, not genetics; it's physical traits that are expressed from genes.

-Correcting for that, if we take hair as an example (blond and black), 2 blonde-haired parents can not have a child with black hair; because black hair is a dominant trait that's always expressed, for the parents to be blonde in the first place both pairs (total: 4) must all contain only the DNA for blonde hair.

-On the other hand, 2 black-haired parents could have a blonde hair kid, provide that the one grandparents on each side are blonde so the recessive blonde-haired gene could be passed down without being expressed in physical appearance.
matdrac
Posted 3/15/2013 3:00:04 AM
There is skin color genes, that control the pigmentation of the skin.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC212702/

As for the exemple i given, it a really rare occurence. Sometime, The kid may have trait given by a no dominant gene but without it to be a ressesive gene. But this effect is yet to be explain.

However, some of the articles i read about it said that it was probably a mutation, similar to what happened with blue eyes : At first, there was only black/brown eyes, and the first human with blue eyes was the result of a mutation.
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Gxgear
Posted 3/15/2013 9:37:40 AM
Okay, yeah. My main concern was with the white parents reproducing a black child, since even though there is a set of expectations in terms of physical traits associate with being white/black, these traits differ greatly between each individual, let alone an entire group of people. Once you example is changed to skin pigmentation it makes total sense.