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Are "ginger" genetics a dominant or recessive gene?

I'm a pale brunette while my partner has strawberry-blonde with freckles all over. Is the ginger traits/gene typically more recessive or dominant, if we have a baby in the future?

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  • 9 years ago
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    Ginger ?

    Red hair/freckles is a recessive trait.

    Hair color in humans is one of those traits that is difficult to predict for the offspring.

    The trait is transmitted by "multiple gene inheritance." Gets a little complicated with "probabilities" instead of definites.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    In case you are asking if a specific ethnic workforce shows a better number of dominant or recessive genes, the answer is possibly. However, that form of query quite doesn't suggest something - a group of individuals having a greater quantity of recessive genes would mean that their eyes are blue as a substitute than brown, or have kind O blood as a substitute of kind A. Does this imply whatever in the end? Who is aware of. Recessive or dominant doesn't mean "higher" or "worse" it simply approach variant. And distinctive ethnic groups do show exceptional phases of version. Nevertheless, there are organizations inside these ethnic businesses that can display even higher levels of version than others... If you understand more about genetic traits you'll have an understanding of that is not ever just so simple as 'dominant' and 'recessive'. The Human Genome task has released a full sequence of human genetic fabric, however this does not tell us all the variation in the species. That work will take a excellent deal of time. I recommend the high-quality reading you can do to help you realize is to study about genetic polymorphisms.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    They are neither, because hair colour is a polygenic trait, caused by many different genes, with many different small variants that interact together, so dominant and recessive don't really exist in this scenario.

    If we measured your hair colour e.g. by measuring the amount of light it reflected we would get some value of 'brunetteness' . If we measured everyone else who might be described as pale brunette we would get lots of different values, showing lots of small differences in genetic make up. You might have a red head, but you could also have any other colour including darker or lighter than both of you.

    That is the joy of babies - each different, each a surprise.

  • 9 years ago

    Neither. Ginger is caused by a mutation in a certain gene. Certain people have higher tendencies for the mutation to occur, such as children of gingers. A ginger can be born to 2 nonginger parents.

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  • JT
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    Redhair is a recessive gene, so is blonde.

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