By Anonymous - 01/01/2009 03:45 - France

Today, my wife and I both have blond hair and blue eyes, we just had a red headed son. FML
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pilfpolf 0

its possible to have red hair kid if youre both blonde its a recessive gene

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olypicgold 0

you obviously never paid atention in high school...ever.

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nutella11_fml 2

My parents are both brown hair and I had blond hair the first four years of my life, my sister a red head, then she had black, then she had blond, now she has brown hair all naturally. Don't worry, I'm sure it's your baby.

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keidus324 6

Both my parents had black hair. I'm blond, my oldest sister is red and my middle sister has the dark brown.

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pexy_fml 16

Your wife has been messing around xP Go for a DNA test

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kims0706 10

Blonds actually have traces of red hair in their natural hair color, so it really isn't that weird or anything that you have a red head son

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102muzicluver 2

U must nt knw genetics cuz your grandma can have red hair and it could be pasted down to your child. So b4 u start accusing your wife of cheating and ruining your marriage u got 2 b certain

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daniella101 5

Maybe she's a fake blonde...

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Smeelover27 15

Don't worry, your wife is not cheating. Bliss hair are recessive alleles. Red hair is dominant. Dominant alleles always overpower recessive. In Gregor Mendel's experiments, the pea plants where all tall. In the F2 generation 75% of the plants were tall while only 25% were short. Even though the pure parental plants, (who were actually not pure since they had short, which are recessive alleles, genes.) Anyway, that 25%, in this case, would be red hair. Your baby just was that 25%. Surprisingly, this isn't too rare. Nerd spew is over; you all may return to your lives.

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dummkopf_fml 2

You are stupid (no offense). If red hair was dominant, you'd have to have red-haired parents to have red hair yourself. For two parents without a trait to give birth to a child with that trait, the parents would have to be carriers. You can only be a carrier of a recessive gene. Imagine "R" is the dominant non-red gene, while "r" is the recessive red gene. The parents in question were probably both Rr. In an Rr case, the dominant non-red "R" takes over. Their child took the "r" allele from each parent, ending up with a genotype of "rr", which allows the red-hair trait to appear.

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greatfirstdate 18

Agreed. If red hair was really dominant, then OP would have cause to worry. As that is not the case, well, then everything is fine. #336, you are not really a nerd on this subject if you got such a basic fact wrong.

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xxjohippiexx 8

Sometimes your children inherit some of your parents/ grandparents genes... Just saying... Lol :P

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musiciangirl591 16

*gasp* i never knew thats how genetics worked :P (i'm joking :P)

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xxjohippiexx 8

Recessive gene!! Look it up..

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