For example .. a asian+ white or Black+ white .. The kids usaually get the best features of their parents.. does it have something to do with genetics
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God's way of saying racism sucks.\n\nHalf black half white people have excellent singing voices, too.
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all this mixed race bull crap it does not even matter what race you are or are not it is the way the parents look is the way the children will come out check it if a white monkey and a green monkey had a child what would it look like a freakin monkey duh! i really wish you people who think about reproducing get the facts first before you conceive these children that are going to be freaked up and make the world freaked up place trying to un do what you so called want to be parents do to them trying to make them beautiful by mixing races why not worry about the love that conceives the child whether it is so called ugly or so called beautiful beauty is only skin deep peal that and what do you have  NOT a darn thing
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It is very difficult to correlate genetic differences to physical differences, and physical differences to behavioral differences.  For example, women and smaller men may have smaller brains than larger men, but this means nothing as far as cognitive differences.  \n\nIt takes a very minor genetic difference (the coding affecting the skin pigment melanin) to cause differences in skin color, and even then the effects of environment are noticeable, and just one or two generations of interbreeding can dilute many of these variations.  With brain development and behavior these differences are *far* more complex, genetics almost irrelevant compared to environmental differences, and what genetic differences there are made even more irrelevant by the fact that we are all one species and can (and do) interbreed.\n\nSo it's a reasonable question from a scientific point of view, but scientists are hyper-aware than *any* misinformation, dead-end theories, faulty studies, etc. can be (and have been) badly misused by really bad people.
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The children will not be "twins" (they will likely not look the same, though they may look similar in the way siblings do). This is because during meiosis, the genes in each haploid are random, from both parents.\n\nFor example, if both twin brothers had a dominant gene for black eyes and a recessive gene for green eyes, one twin might pass on a black eye gene to his child, while the other might pass on a green eye gene.
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the popular kids in middle are early bloomers. so youre going to have to rely on genetics. those twins.
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Because of the recessive and dominant genes that you inherit.\nWhen the sperm and the egg join together, they each carry half of the total genetic mixture that creates a person. Sometimes, the skin-color genes of one person "dominate" over that of the other, but other times the "recessive" genes outnumber the dominant ones and so the other skin color "wins".\n\nI'm not a genetics expert, but from my little knowledge I can tell you that it's all the result of a pretty much random combination process. Sometimes the recessive (or "weaker") genes outnumber the dominant ones, and "win", while sometimes the dominant ones do.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/genetics
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you're asking this question because the darker-skin pigment genes *do* tend to be dominant or co-dominant. the answer may go back to your father's parentage ... were his recent ancestors all latino? recessive genes can skip generations before showing up.
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recessive features are passed through family trees as "traits"; people who are heterogenous for the feature and their phenotype shows the dominant feature but they carry the recessive feature into their offsprings.
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I am black and grew up with a lot of white friends, and let's just say that the parenting techniques are different. I grew up with "that look" (lol!), and I did indeed see my white friends walk all over their parents. It was as if their parents were afraid that the kids would hate them if they were disciplined.
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Probably has to do with x & Y chromosomes has to do with genetics to make baby a boy or girl
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I think you're pretty much spot on with your question.  There's nothing to suggest it's hereditary and in fact, ADHD / ADD is little more than a modern 'convenience illness'.  In many cases it's used as a label applied to badly behaved kids and is often done so by physicians in order to make parents feel better about themselves.\n\nThe reliable research that's been done very strongly suggests that it's environmental factors not hereditary ones and as you pointed out, diet is one of the most influential factors.  Others include peers, school, parents, society, media and all those other things that affect the way a child behaves.\n\nThe general consensus amongst the experts is that it's not even a condition per se but just a politically correct and socially acceptable way of rebranding a misbehaving child.\n\nThe genetic 'link' is most probably due to the fact that children are likely to lead a similar lifestyle to their parents.  If someone is bought up on burgers and fries then they're likely to bring their children up in a similar way.
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No... that's Linnaean genetics, which believed that characteristics acquired in life were passed down.  For example, a giraffe that stretched its neck to eat higher leaves would have babies with longer necks.\nA hunter-gatherer society may carry a higher percentage of genetics that make for people with faster reflexes and better senses (fewer people needing glasses, etc.) due to the pressures of having to hunt.  If you had faulty genes (like me) you would starve before having kids.  So the hunter with great eyesight would have more kids and more influence on the genetics of the group.\nSo comparing the average tribal baby to the average New Yorker baby, the tribal baby may have better reflexes, but its not because its father was trained to hunt.
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Gravity in Asian countries (middle Earth) is higher than other countries. Thus "compressing" the human body to sustain the gravity force. If you want your kid to be tall, send them to oversea when young. They will be taller.\n\nOf course, the DNA plays a vital role as well in determining your height.
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Maybe the "survival of the fittest"-rule doesn't count for every little detail in the genetic code. Is this possible?\n\nMaybe there was no particular function for this. Maybe the forefathers of asians and caucasians where quite simply different looking, one moved west the other east. They had no more contact and so each developed into a distinct race, with their own features.\n\nI don't know, i'm neither a biologist, nor a historian, nor anything else. \nIntriguing question. congratulations.
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Yes it is. You'd be surprised at the recessive genes  a lot of black  folks have, so they may just look like the average person of African decent but they may have a lot of other genes from other groups dormant in their genetic code. So it is entirely possible that the child could have straight hair.
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THAT IS GOING TO DEPEND ON YOUR GENES. SOME PEOPLE NEVER GET ANY TALLER THAN ONE OF THEIR PARENTS. BUT SOME GET A LOT TALLER IT ALL WILL COME DOWN TO THE GENE POOL THAT YOU TAKE AFTER.
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Well, in scientific form this is caused by the Mendelian trait, Law of Dominance. One trait (Btwn any of your parents)is more dominant than the other. It can also be caused by sex-linked traits found in the x-chromosome. There are characteristics that the daughter will get that is diff. from the son. It is just normal. I too look more like my dad.