If my dad has black hair and my mom has brown hair. How come i don't have either of their hair

My hair color is a mixture of theirs. It's lighter than my dads but darker than my moms.

If my dad has black hair and my mom has brown hair. How come i don't have either of their hair color?

Because some of the genes for hair color are dominant, some are recessive, and some are codominant. Your dark haired father can easily have some recessive genes for lighter hair colorings, and they have still been dominant over your mother's genes for still lighter color. Or your father's expressed genes are codominant with your mother's. You could also have wound up with hair even lighter than your mom's, if both of your parents had recessive genes for such a color.

If my dad has black hair and my mom has brown hair. How come i don't have either of their hair color?

that's the beauty of having children.....you never know what they are going to look like........

If my dad has black hair and my mom has brown hair. How come i don't have either of their hair color?

The reason is that hair color comes from proteins that is amplified by the dominant alleles. So since U have half ur dads hair and half ur moms, U make proteins based on both of them. So U make half the proteins that ur dad makes to get black hair, and ur DNA makes half the proteins that ur mom makes to have brown hair. Simple ain't it?

If my dad has black hair and my mom has brown hair. How come i don't have either of their hair color?

Ask the milkman.

If my dad has black hair and my mom has brown hair. How come i don't have either of their hair color?

Maybe because you are a mixture of them... You can also get hair color from your grandparents.

If my dad has black hair and my mom has brown hair. How come i don't have either of their hair color?

you are adopted

If my dad has black hair and my mom has brown hair. How come i don't have either of their hair color?

your grandparents also play a role in the color of the hair you have. either that or you are adopted, just kidding.

If my dad has black hair and my mom has brown hair. How come i don't have either of their hair color?

well you're half your mom and half your dad right?

so it makes sense that you're in between them both.

If my dad has black hair and my mom has brown hair. How come i don't have either of their hair color?

Your parents carry a set of genes. You get a set from each parent. Your dad has black hair. (We will label him B) Your mom has brown hair. (We will label her b) You inherited a gene from each parent (Bb) which gives you a mix. One of your parents are carrying a gene that causes you to have your color.

Example: your dad could have either combination: BB or Bb

(BB is solid black with no mix - Bb is solid black but carrying a mix)

your mom - bb for brown

Your combination must be the mix of both.

If my dad has black hair and my mom has brown hair. How come i don't have either of their hair color?

Recessive or throwback genes. In other words,your great great great great great grandma may of had your shade of hair.

If my dad has black hair and my mom has brown hair. How come i don't have either of their hair color?

Genetics, hair color comes from several genes. This is why there are a range of colors, not just 2 or 3.

If my dad has black hair and my mom has brown hair. How come i don't have either of their hair color?

Most traits are complex, meaning they are controlled by more than one gene. It just means that some of the hair color alleles/traits that you got from your mom allow expression or repression of those contributed by your dad (or vice versa).

Be aware your hair can darken as you get older and is affected by environmental factors. Look at baby pictures of yourself and your parents and see if you matched then.