Curly Hair Punnett Square

Determine the ratio of straight hair offspring to curly hair offspring.

Curly hair punnett square. 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. 81 versions of the punnett square. A person with one copy of the straight hair allele and one copy of the curly hair allele will have wavy hair. There is also a huge range of textures r.

The expected phenotype frequencies are that the offspring has chance of having straight hair h s has chance of curly hair h c has 2 4 chance of having wavy hair h s h c. The mother of a child is a blonde with curly hair while the father has light colored straight hair. If the only alleles for hair texture were straight and curly there would be three phenotypes. In humans wavy hair cs results by the co dominant situation of curly hair c and straight hair s.

Straight vs curly hair is one example of incomplete dominance. If you want to save yourself a lot of time and hassle we recommend you use our dihybrid cross calculator. In humans curly hair is dominant to straight hair. When you draw the punnett square my kids could inherit straight hair 50 chance or curly hair 50 chance.

What are the possible results if a culry haired man and wavy haired woman have children. Complete this punnett square to show the allele combinations of the possible offspring produced. However you asked for something a little different. Hair texture is of course hereditary but can be affected by outside factors.

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. The punnett square below represents their potential offspring genotypes where c. Say we d like to know the chances that our baby will have curly and light colored hair. 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.

Two curly haired parents have a straight haired daughter. There are two versions of the hair type gene curly c and straight s. I am most definitely not a biologist so please take this explanation with that. We can see this information from the punnett square above.

Straight curly and wavy. Punnett square wikipedia first we must establish that genetics are more complicated than basic punnett squares.