Actually, the answer is YES. If your child has a cleft chin, either you and the other parent have one of the traits to create the cleft. When both traits come together, the cleft is formed. So you can't see it in the parents but you can in the child. In ref to the comment below... The same goes with eye color. Brown and Blue are so close it's not even funny. They're just one marker apart. Children with cleft chins don't have to have a parent with a cleft chin, that i simple genetics, one of the great great granfathers of a child might have had it, and it resurfaced many many genirations later, it really is all genetic, some people have blue eyes while niether parents have the trait, it is simply a gene that has been skipped and is now resurfacing!
I actually don't know this 100% but I watched an episode of house where the son had known he had been adopted because he had a cleft chin and neither of his parents did. I find it hard to believe because there may be cleft chins in some other part of their genetics
Cleft chin is a dominant trait, but it also has a modifier gene. You know like those lamps that can be turned on but if there is a light switch it has to be in the on position for you to actually physically turn it on.
My son has a cleft chin and being the mother I know for sure who the dad is and neither he nor I have a cleft chin, but my father did.
That would be a "cleft". The terms cleft chin, butt chin, chin cleft,, superhero chin, dimple chin, or a chin dimple refer to a dimple on the chin
One can be born with a cleft chin. Another way one would get a cleft chin, if they wanted it, would be through plastic surgery. A cleft would be bored into the fissure of the chin bone and then one would have a cleft chin.
The underside of the chin of a chicken or rooster is called a wattle. A wattle is usually orange in color.
The probability that an individual heterozygous for a cleft chin and an individual homozygous for a chin without a cleft will produce offspring that are homozygous recessive for a chin without a cleft is fifty percent. You can calculate this by making a Punnet square.
Out of the 4 possible offspring outcomes, 2 of the offspring will have cleft chins. Two won't have cleft chins. The ratio is 1:1.
cleft chin is recessive, no cleft chin dominant.
That would be a "cleft". The terms cleft chin, butt chin, chin cleft,, superhero chin, dimple chin, or a chin dimple refer to a dimple on the chin
One can be born with a cleft chin. Another way one would get a cleft chin, if they wanted it, would be through plastic surgery. A cleft would be bored into the fissure of the chin bone and then one would have a cleft chin.
I like single chin better than cleft chin. But different people have different choices.
Ex. Genotype = Phenotype AA Pure, no cleft chin Aa Hybrid, no cleft chin AA Pure, cleft chin XX Female XY Male
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He has a cleft in his chin, it's very cute.
The underside of the chin of a chicken or rooster is called a wattle. A wattle is usually orange in color.
Interesting question, I can see why one might wonder this, since a cleft chin may be though of as 'masculine'. I'm a mixed martial artist, and thinking about the anatomy of the cleft chin would tell me the answer is 'no'. The cleft is due to an incomplete formation of fusing the jawbone together, therefore, fighting someone with a cleft chin may even be something to exploit with a nice right hook.
A cleft chin, or a chin with a dimple in it, almost resembling that of a butt is pretty common amongst people. All a cleft chin really is- is a Y-shaped fissure on the jaw bone.
The probability that an individual heterozygous for a cleft chin and an individual homozygous for a chin without a cleft will produce offspring that are homozygous recessive for a chin without a cleft is fifty percent. You can calculate this by making a Punnet square.
Yes, genetically it is possible. Especially so if one or more of the grandparents have a chin cleft.