Curly Hair Punnett Square

The mother of a child is a blonde with curly hair while the father has light colored straight hair.

Curly hair punnett square. Straight curly and wavy. Punnett square wikipedia first we must establish that genetics are more complicated than basic punnett squares. Hair type is an interesting case of something called incomplete dominance. Two curly haired parents have a straight haired daughter.

Yesterday s post about the evolutionary origins of curly hair got me thinking about how we inherit a curly hair pattern and pass it on to children. Today i d like to add a mini post to the series about the genetics behind hair. So for hair type cc gives curly cs gives wavy and ss gives straight hair. If you want to save yourself a lot of time and hassle we recommend you use our dihybrid cross calculator.

There is also a huge range of textures r. If the only alleles for hair texture were straight and curly there would be three phenotypes. I am most definitely not a biologist so please take this explanation with that. What are the possible results if a culry haired man and wavy haired woman have children.

The punnett square below represents their potential offspring genotypes where c. We can see this information from the punnett square above. Hair texture is of course hereditary but can be affected by outside factors. Say we d like to know the chances that our baby will have curly and light colored hair.

Straight vs curly hair is one example of incomplete dominance. 81 versions of the punnett square. What this means is that with hair type if you have one of each version of the gene you get a mix of the two or wavy hair. A person with one copy of the straight hair allele and one copy of the curly hair allele will have wavy hair.

In humans curly hair is dominant to straight hair. Since i mentioned above that curly hair is an incomplete dominance you can use the analogy in the video above with the red and white flowers to predict whether or not my children will have curly hair. There are two versions of the hair type gene curly c and straight s. However you asked for something a little different.

Complete this punnett square to show the allele combinations of the possible offspring produced. When you draw the punnett square my kids could inherit straight hair 50 chance or curly hair 50 chance.