When a light skinned person and a dark skinned person have a child, that child is likely to have a mix of those skin tones, resulting in a caramel hue. However, when someone with blond hair and someone with black hair have a child, the child would either have blond or black hair rather than a mix of the two producing brown.
And where do eye colour genes fall in here?
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genes expressing themselves in a offspring depends on which gene is expressive or recessive if a expressive gene combines with a recessive gene then the expressive gene is shown in the offspring and if both the parents have recessive gene then the recessive gene will show in the offspring.
how much a gene expresses it self depends on it’s expressive or recessive-ness and it’s an intrinsic property of the gene.
here’s a helpful analogy: imagine a twin turn-table with two genes being the disks, the knob position on the slider determines the expressive-ness of the genes if the knob is in middle then both of the genes are equally expressive (you here music form both the disks equally like a child with mix skin tones) if the knob is in upper half then one gene is dominant i,e; more expressive and other the other is recessive and you here music form one disk dominating the other.
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