Curly Hair Punnett Square

I am most definitely not a biologist so please take this explanation with that.

Curly hair punnett square. 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. Determine the ratio of straight hair offspring to curly hair offspring. 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.

There are two versions of the hair type gene curly c and straight s. The punnett square below represents their potential offspring genotypes where c. Punnett square wikipedia first we must establish that genetics are more complicated than basic punnett squares. 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. So for hair type cc gives curly cs gives wavy and ss gives straight hair. Today i d like to add a mini post to the series about the genetics behind hair. The mother of a child is a blonde with curly hair while the father has light colored straight hair.

However you asked for something a little different. Straight vs curly hair is one example of incomplete dominance. 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. 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.

When you draw the punnett square my kids could inherit straight hair 50 chance or curly hair 50 chance. In humans wavy hair cs results by the co dominant situation of curly hair c and straight hair s. Hair texture is of course hereditary but can be affected by outside factors. What are the possible results if a culry haired man and wavy haired woman have children.

We can see this information from the punnett square above. Straight curly and wavy. A person with one copy of the straight hair allele and one copy of the curly hair allele will have wavy hair. Hair type is an interesting case of something called incomplete dominance.

Two curly haired parents have a straight haired daughter. Say we d like to know the chances that our baby will have curly and light colored hair.