If I was half black and half white but my skin color was white would it be possible to have a black child with a mother who was white?
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themisterF
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Yes
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yes, you carry darker skinned genes and could certainly pass that to your child, but it would probably be a lighter shade, unless the girl has some black in her family somewhere and both black genes matched up. Basicly, your baby could come out a lot of different shades or it could get the white genes from both sides and be very fair skinned. It's up to God what genes end up coming out.
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Definitely, my father is very dark skinned and my mother is quite light, I would have thought I would be darker but I'm not, I'm slighlty lighter than my mum.
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Yes. Mixed couples that get several kids often have kids that have different skin tones.
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yes
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yep, it would. Skin color is determind by the amount of melanin in the skin. there are two types: pheomelanin (red) and eumelanin (very dark brown). Both amount & type are determined by 4-6 genes which are incomplete in dominance. (this means that there isn't a dominant skin color gene) One copy of each genes is inherited from each parent. Each gene comes in several alleles. Hence skin color can come out in various tones like mixing paint colors together.
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Probably not black, but possibly darker than either if you. There are several genes which darken skin, and if you have one and she has another, each of you could be quite light but a child who inherited both would be significantly darker than either. On the other hand, if both of you are generally quite light, it is improbably that you carry many darkening genes each, so it is unlikely that a child would go all the way to "black".
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yes, but it wouldn't be very black. You know, there are many tones of black...when you mix white and black, it would be not so black. +5
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yup ... i've read where a black person born to white parents with 1 great-grandparent out of the eight was black
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