Curly Hair And Straight Hair Parents

My mother has pure straight hair and my dad has wavy hair and both sides of the family have straight and wavy hair but not curly.

Curly hair and straight hair parents. This means that you have received both copies of the curly hair gene from your parents. However one parent could have straight hair while the other has curly hair. As I turned 12 I began getting.

If both of your parents have curly hair you are more likely to inherit the trait of curly hair. Its the shape of the hair follicles that determine the shape and texture of the hair. Curly hair is dominant to straight hair meaning if the child inherits the curly allele from her father she will certainly display the curly phenotype even though she will definitely inherit the straight allele from mom.

A wavy-haired parent can either contribute a C or an s so two wavy-haired parents have a fifty percent chance of having a wavy-haired child a twenty-five percent chance of having a curly-haired child and a twenty-five percent chance of having a straight-haired child. However one parent could have straight hair while the other has curly hair. You already know that there are two versions of the Caucasian hair type gene curly C and straight s.

Enforcing curl confidence by teaching each kid to love their curl patterns Growing up especially in a biracial family this is very important for my girls. These genes can either instruct our hair to be curly C or straight S. So you get genes of both types but the dominant curly hair gene trumps the straight hair gene and expresses itself in the offspring that is in yourself.

This corresponds to saying that you have inherited both copies of the gene for curly hair. A pair of curly-haired parents have a straight-haired child. Why is my hair curly when my parents have straight hair.

As already mentioned curly hair is an autosomal dominant trait which means that one of the parents has straight hair while the other has curly hair. Because both your parents have or at some point have had hair you get two alleles for your hair. Our hair is so important that we dont just have one hair gene but approximately 12.