Your Phenotype Inheritance

[Ánleifr]

Just curious if most people inherit their phenotype from their paternal or maternal line or if it is just a random 50/50 shot? Please vote where you received your predominate phenotype.

[Mortimer]

everyone tells me my mum

[Queen B]

I don't know.
I have my mom's head shape, and eye-and-above area, and my dad's lips and nose.
My colors are from both of my granpfathers.

[Vasconcelos]

Interesting thread.


I'm usually classified as being Atlantid to Atlandomed with slight hits of CM eventho not many people refer it, however my parents are:

Mother - "Gracilmediterranid/Mediterranid/intermediate between atlanto-gracil with a slight influence from Alpinid imo" (by Agrippa). She's got very pinkish skin.
Father - Basically Mediterranid with CM (Berid) which was enhanced by age.

Both are short..actually most of my family is under 1,70m, with some females (my mother included) being clearly under 1,60m.
I'm 1,74m, only ancestors who were this "tall" were my maternal Grandfather and her wife's father..my maternal grandmother says they were "tall like me" (she's ~1,53 so you get why she says "tall").



I don't really look very similar to either of them, but to one of my maternal uncles, despite being nearly 10cm taller. Guess I look most out of my mother's side of the family.

[Ánleifr]

I think it's crazy how phenotypes seem to randomly come out. You can have a son who inherits his phenotype from his mother who turns around and gives it to his son and his daughter could have received his wife's phenotype and his sister could have received their fathers phenotype....but phenotype really is so important, it is what gives us our looks!

[Corvus]

I think dominantly from my father. My mother is much fairer.
But we all know theses genes are recessive.

[Ánleifr]

I think dominantly from my father. My mother is much fairer.
But we all know theses genes are recessive.

Interesting.....I didn't know that phenotype was recessive. So with recessive genes "two copies of the gene (need to be present, one from the mother and one from the father) for the trait to be expressed". So if your Atlantid that means that you received that gene from both parents even if one or both of them is not Atlantid, correct?

[Corvus]

Interesting.....I didn't know that phenotype was recessive. So with recessive genes "two copies of the gene (need to be present, one from the mother and one from the father) for the trait to be expressed". So if your Atlantid that means that you received that gene from both parents even if one or both of them is not Atlantid, correct?

Well I am not an expert on this.

The term "recessive gene" is part of the laws of Mendelian inheritance created by Gregor Mendel. Examples of recessive genes in Mendel's famous pea plant experiments include those that determine the color and shape of seed pods, and plant height.

Let`s keep it simple. If your father is blackhaired and your mother blonde
the propability that your children are also darker is higher, because the blonde traits are recessive according to Mendel`s rules.
That fits in my case, but my sister for example is also much lighter than me.

[Pallantides]

I think I'm more simillar to my mother

[Arne]

I have the pale skin and the lips of my Mom
More the Nose of my Dad.
But my physical Characteristics could be more obtained by my maternal grandma.
She was very aurignacid and longheaded, but darker (more celtic i guess)
My height comes from my Maternal side aswell.
They had some huge People on their Line with height of 190 cm.