What genes do you normally inherit from your parents?

Answer 1

Yes your genes are inherited from your parents. This is becquse when the egg and sperm meet, and the egg is fertilized and the offspring (childs) cells are formed by the union. the child will have half the chromosomes of the father and half the chromosomes of the mother. The genes are in the chromosomes which are found in the nucleus of all the parents cells. Thus genes are passed along or inherited.

Answer 2

This is a very general question and can be answered many ways.

Genes are carried on chromosomes. You get one from your mom and one from your dad. Certain genes can be recessive or dominant. Freckles is an example of a dominant trait. If your mom has freckles and your dad doesn't you will get freckles. This means your dad may still give you the gene for freckles but it is recessive and the mothers' dominant freckle gene causes the freckles. Many things are produced by your genes, such as tongue rolling, widows peak, 6 fingers, hair on the middle finger, etc. If you Google these you will find that some are recessive and some are dominant.

More technical answers

The short answer is that, for a girl, both the mother and the father are the source of the genes which she inherits.

For a boy, his sex-related genes are carried by the Y chromosome which he inherits from his father and his mother is the source of the genes which are carried in his X chromosome. Either his mother or his father can be the source of his non-sex-related genes.

A longer answer

Many diseases are caused by changes, which are known as mutations, in some genes. The vast majority of mutations are not on the sex chromosomes (X and Y) - none are on the Y and <4% are on the X - so we can ignore Y-linked inheritance as a cause. *** (See Note below.)

Basically the gene change can come from the mother or the father but can also start spontaneously in an individual. All conditions have to start somewhere and on very rare occasions both parents can have mutations. If a child was to inherit gene changes from both of its parents it would generally have a lot of problems at an earlier age.

When an individual has more than one mutated gene it makes things a lot more complicated to explain.

Generally the cause is what is called dominant inheritance, meaning that it is not linked to the X or Y chromosomes which determine sex. This is where the mother or the father has a mutation on one of their non-sex-related genes. They also will have another copy of the same gene because one copy comes from their mother and one from the father. They pass on one copy of their gene to each child (either 'good' or 'bad') so with each child there is a 50:50 or 1 in 2 chance of the child inheriting the 'good' or the 'bad' copy.

For the sex-related genes, a mother will pass on one of her X chromosomes to her child and a man will pass on either his X (producing a daughter) or his Y (producing a son). If a woman has a mutation on one of her X chromosomes there is a 50:50 or 1in 2 chance she will pass it on to each child (boy or girl). If a man has a mutation on his X chromosome he will always pass on the condition to his daughter but never to his son.

As the daughter has another X chromosome this can compensate for the mutation, often meaning such a female child will display little if any signs of the condition. Such a female is called a carrier and, in turn, there is a 50:50 risk of her passing it on to any child.

*** Note: Any female mammal possesses two X sex chromosomes and a male mammal possesses an X and a Y.

Answer 3

Eye colour

Hair colour

Skin colour

Height

What king of hair e.g straight,curly etc

Answer 4

All of them;

half from mom & half from pop.

Answer 5

Yes, who else would it be from!?