How might it be possible for you to show a trait when neither of your relatives show the trait?

Answer 1

Yes an offspring can have a trait that neither parent has but i dont know what the doctors term is. JT

Answer 2

It's possible that they have it in their genome, even if they don't express it, i.e. even if you can't see it. For example, you may have blonde hair even if your parents have brown hair. Also, if you don't see anything of your parent's traits,

then it's possible that you got traits from your grandfather or grandmother or

ancestors.

Answer 3

Because some traits, such as blue eyes, are recessive. For each trait you get a pair of genes, one from each parent and you only get the recessive trait if you get a copy of that gene from both parents. If you have one dominant, eg brown eye, gene you get that.

So say your parents both have brown eyes, we know that they must each have at least on brown eye gene but they could have two. If they each have one brown and one blue eye gene they could both passs on the blue eye gene and you would have blue eyes. Howeve, conversely two people with blue eyes cannot have a brown eyed child, unless there is by gene mutation.

Answer 4

No, since one is made up solely of their parent's genes, this is impossible. There are such things as dormant genes (may go by many names). This means that even though the parent has it, the gene is not active in this parent's bodily system. There are many situations in which someone can inherit a trait that has been passed down, yet not obviously present to the point in which it has been discovered. So, with this said, if a child has a trait, this trait must be present in one of both of the parents. This holds true even if the trait does not appear to be present.

Answer 5

I am not a doctor but my high school Biology class taught me that other members of your family, often your parents or grandparents, may carry a gene for a trait that does not present itself until paired with a similar gene from another family. So your parents may pass on to you genes that are similar and that allow you to present a trait that no one else in your family possesses. Your siblings may not inherit the same genes from both of your parents so they may be carriers of one gene that does not present itself.

A perfect example is red hair. My mother is red headed and so am I. But I had to inherit a red hair gene from BOTH my parents or it would not present itself in me. Theoretically, I inherited a red hair gene from both my parents or I wouldn't be red headed. My father, then, must be a carrier of the red hair gene, but since he has only one, he is not red headed.

It is very possible for neither parent to have red hair and yet have a red headed child, since both parents could be carriers of the red hair gene and each pass it on to the same child.

Answer 6

Yes, if both parents have one copy of a recessive trait, you could end up with two copies and express that trait even if neither of your parents did.

Answer 7

It could be a recessive trait that you inherited that wasn't expressed in them. It's most likely that one of your grandparents had this trait.

Answer 8

you just do want you got to do

Answer 9

Recessive genes - Google it fool