why if your born to parents of different races how do they determine which race is the child?
107919
On a birth certificate in Hawaii, parents fill in their ethnicity. It is not like the continental U.S. where you check a box. The ethnic diversity is so great in Hawaii that checking a box to indicate "White, Black, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander or other" would not suffice. The blood quantum of each ethnic group is not addressed.
709639
He's an American and I believe that he comes from a multi-racial family.  I have read an article that states which parent is what race but I can't remember when or where.
731941
Since gender/sex is not dependent upon genetics, there is always a 50/50 chance or 50% probability that the child will be one sex. Use that to narrow down the eye color chances for those questions.
1112761
no. your genes and heritage determine your eye color/hair color.
615959
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
906616
The world is a beautiful patch work. Different races means different cultures, background, languages, histories, etc. That is fun to learn, experience and get to know. Teach us to be understanding, tolerant and help us grow as human beings... at least in theory.
415194
There's only one real race: the human race. So there really is no such thing as a mixed marriage. All human beings are more than 99% identical genetically. Less than 1% of our genes make up things like hair color, eye color, height, and skin color. Asking of it's okay for a black person and a white person to have children is like asking if it's okay for a tall person and a short person to have children, because skin-color is no more relevant than height or eye color.
842299
If you go the the Registrar or Births, Marriages and Deaths and if you know the date of his birth it will say where he is born.  You will see on the certificate the name of the parents and if they are the same as you know they are then you have it.  Otherwise do a people search on the internet and see if that helps.Start off with your parents name and then see where it leads you to.  Good luck.
363926
They can be mixed, Caucasian or asian. Officially (like for schools) they can pretty much choose whichever they want. Just be consistent.
461116
Becasue they are the chosen race
760896
If the DNA samples applied to the autoradiogram come from both parents and the child, try comparing the distance traveled child's DNA fragments to that of both the mother and father.  There should be commonality to some degree if there is a relationship.  The more markers in common, the more likely the sire.
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there is only one race...the human race\n\nthere is no biological basis for multiple "races" within the human race\n\nif it helps any, i'm a molecular geneticist\n\nthat doesn't make me right, it just means that i have some background relative to your question\n\none can find larger variation, genetically speaking, within an ethnos than found between two different ethnicities\n\nin other words you can take a group of white europeans or black africans...and not in all but in some cases (and it would be quite common), you could find greater genetic variation within the group of white europeans than by comparing both groups\n\nyou could do the same with the group of black africans or any other so-called race
705792
a child is created in his/her parents image, a gene from each  shapes the child, they decide the action that starts the creation, but yet a child  for the most part, is not equal to the parent,,,,\n\nand please dont classify all believers or even all believers in Jesus, into one group lol  i do both, yet are not christian
236904
Certain DNA tests can help track ethnicity.
76027
Hair color, eye color, and also skin color are determined by special proteins called pigments.  The pigments in your hair, eyes, and skin are encoded in your genes, which is was these traits are said to be genetic.  All molecules absorb some wavelengths of light and reflect others.  Pigments are typically complex molecules that reflect certain wavelengths in the visible spectrum and absorb others.  Different people have different color pigments because there are minor changes in the DNA sequences that code for the pigments which result in minor changes in the molecules themselves, which in turn change the wavelenghts of light that are reflected and absorbed.  If someone has blue eyes, it is because the pigments in their eyes reflect a lot of wavelenghts of blue light, and absorb most other colors.
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Here's one by race and one by ancestry, hope this helps.
643647
yes i do the double take thing sometimes. the most ironic part for me is that i myself am the product of a mixed marriage. my mother is white my father is black. but still i'll see a light skinned child go to his/her dark skinned mother and i'm shocked, or a dark skinned child going to a light skinned father. i try not to stare sometimes i compliment them on such a lovely looking child and explain my situation and background.