Black and white twins!

[Melachi]

Ok, apparently this is the first case of it or something I dont know, but frankly, I think the guy is a bit of a chump...

I mean who really believes that story of, "well you know its actually very rare but its possible for two white parents to have a black child"

Yeah yeah yeah, bull!

Anyway..

http://www.poe-news.com/stories.php?poeurlid=57572

lol, just realised, wtf, thats messed up. Check out the name of the .jpg on the site

 

[DocWolfe]

I've seen two albino kids born to black parents, but even though they were white they still had negroid features (using my terminoligy carefully here) that kid in the article looks like she has white parents though.

 

[Kaun_IA]

if that dude is the father, then its possible that one twin got more of mothers genes and the other got more from the fathers side... but as they are twins... its lol

 

[Karl]

:O crazzzy.

And that .jpg name... fooked up!

 

[Rediknight]

i kinda want to find out who named the pic and ask them what they knew about the story that wasn't printed

I've heard tell of stuff like this before - it's very rare, but not the first...

 

[Darksword]

man whatever, id hit it

 

[DocWolfe]

man whatever, id hit it

The kids...?

 

[Karl]

yeah that confused me aswell...

 

[Karl]

This site talks more about it... bit better imo

http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/mixedtwins.asp

 

[DocWolfe]

just read the article karl... didn't know peoples eye colour could change... I thought it was static throughout your life.

 

[Rediknight]

i want odd coloured eyes like David Bowie - i think i might go twat myself in the head with a shovel until the trauma makes it happen

Actually, thinking about it, if i stand on a chair on a stone ground, then happen to passout BEFORE the trauma is great enough, i'll take ANOTHER smash on the floor... but i'll have to attach weights to my head to make sure i fall head first, otherwise something like my shoulder might break my fall...

Wonder if i could sue work for letting me be dumb enough and unsupervised with a shovel...

 

[Laddey]

It was on frontpage of one of many papers like, 2 week ago. It's meant to be a 1 in a million chance of it happening. phwoa.

 

[Jeriraa]

Well, I dcant remember much about Mendels laws but one thing's for sure: They are not identical twins. Must have been 2 eggs or they'd be similar colored.

Another thing that makes me wonder: mother's got dark hair, father's got dark hair - why is the white kid fair then?

 

[Rediknight]

kids are often born blonde and it fades to a darker colour over the first few months

 

[Laddey]

My mother's got dark hair, my dads got dark hair. I've got blonde hair

 

[Jeriraa]

kids are often born blonde and it fades to a darker colour over the first few months

Good point... I was once a beautiful blond too. Now I am ginger. (Ok, I lied about the beautiful part.)

 

[noblok]

Another thing that makes me wonder: mother's got dark hair, father's got dark hair - why is the white kid fair then?

Because the blonde gene is suppressed by the dark one. So while both parents have dark hair, it is possible that they have DB (1 dark and 1 blonde part). Only one half is used to "form" the baby. So the father gives 1 part and the mother gives 1. This means there's a 25% chance to get DD (dark), 50% to get DB (dark) and 25% to get BB (blonde).

That's how I remember it at least .

 

[Jeriraa]

Because the blonde gene is suppressed by the dark one. So while both parents have dark hair, it is possible that they have DB (1 dark and 1 blonde part). Only one half is used to "form" the baby. So the father gives 1 part and the mother gives 1. This means there's a 25% chance to get DD (dark), 50% to get DB (dark) and 25% to get BB (blonde).

That's how I remember it at least .

I never really got Mendel tbh... but isnt the "B" in both parents suppressed? So no matter what combination you achive you'd always get a suppresed "B" out of it?

 

[Ctuchik]

Wonder if i could sue work for letting me be dumb enough and unsupervised with a shovel...

probably

just look at what ppl sue for and acually get away with nowadays

 

[Melachi]

My mother's got dark hair, my dads got dark hair. I've got blonde hair

What colour is your postman's hair?




Just joking :x

 

[Raven]

lol, just realised, wtf, thats messed up. Check out the name of the .jpg on the site

lol

 

[Laddey]

What colour is your postman's hair?




Just joking :x

cheeky coont!

but lol

 

[noblok]

I never really got Mendel tbh... but isnt the "B" in both parents suppressed? So no matter what combination you achive you'd always get a suppresed "B" out of it?

Let me retry .

A cell consits of two (or more) parts: one half from the father and one half from the mother. The procreation celss just have one half of it, since otherwise every other generation would have double the components. i.e. 2-4-8-....

So if both the father and the mother have a dark and a blonde component, their procreation cells would either have the blonde or the dark part. So there's a 50% chance on each. In a diagram: mother horizontally, father vertically, the doubles are the combined result.

[font=verdana]    D    B
D DD   DB
B DB   BB[/font]

As you can see there's a 25% chance on DD and BB and a 50% chance on DB. As the blonde component can't express itself when the dark comonent is there as well DB will show as dark hair as well. This means there's a 75% chance to have a kid with dark hair and a 25% chance to get one with blonde.

 

[Jeriraa]

A cell consits of two (or more) parts: one half from the father and one half from the mother. The procreation celss just have one half of it, since otherwise every other generation would have double the components. i.e. 2-4-8-....

Thats where my thinking went wrong.

 

[lilmissnaughty]

dark hair gene is dominant - if u got one blond gene an one dark gene u will exhibit dark hair but ur kid could inherit blond gene from u an ur partner = blond kid.
still cant get me head round twins diff colours tho.
maybe she is a genetic freak an was meant to be a cat - they have stimulated ovulation, so one litter of kittens could have more then one dad...