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Most people would already know, but I guess you don't. It's because babies are basicly a combination of the mother and fathers DNA.

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Q: Why do most children look a bit like of their parents but not identical to either?
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Why are you not geneticly identicel to your parents?

Because you get chromosomes from both parents, therefore you look like both parents, but have only certain traits from either parent. That is why you are not identical to either parent.


Why can a child look like both parents but not identical to either parent?

because they get the males cells and females s the get some personality of both


Why arent children identical to either of their parents?

Because they're a mixture of those parents; some from Mom, some from Dad. Occasionally, a child looks very much like one parent, but this is just appearance; exactly half of you came from each parent.


Why are children not exactly like their parents?

because parents dont understand children and what they like


Why arent child re identical to either one of their parents?

Children share the traits of each parent. Each parent provides 26 chromosomes to the baby and DNA for the developing fetus. There are dominant and recessive genes that determine things like eye and hair color, so when a baby is born they have a combination of both parents DNA.


For a codominant traiit do the offspring of identical parents always look like the parent why?

No, the offspring of identical parents would not always look like the parents because everyone has dominant and recessive traits, where the recessive traits do not show but is still in DNA. That said, recessive traits not shown in parents can be passed on as dominant traits to offspring - making offspring not always identical to its parents. (this is also called genetic variation)


If identical twins married identical twins could at least some of their kids look like twins?

Acctually, they're children would not look like twins. But all of their children would look like brothers and sisters.


Why are identical twins not clones of their parents?

Children are the results of a mix of their parent's DNA. They do not have the exact same DNA, they have half their mother's and half their father's. Character and personality play a major part in allowing anyone to identify a person - particularly parents, who spend a lot of time with, and have a lot of opportunity to observe the differences between, their children.


What do children of mixed parents look like?

They look like their parents like all children do. or their grandparents. When it comes to color it can be one or the other or a mix.


Is there 7 people that looks the same?

Well there are cases of identical septuplets. Like identical twins, identical septuplets are all born looking identical and of the same gender only difference is there are 7 children not 2


How does mitosis ensure that a new cell is just like a parent cell?

It makes sure that the cell is identical to its parents


Why a daughter bacterial cell is identical to its parental cell but don't look like parents?

because your genes are rubbish