Monday, 12 November 2012

I need a geneticist...

week 18, day 7

I keep wondering what my baby will look like/be like. I know baby will be a rough combination of me and Coyote and bits of family and some of baby being babies own unique self...but just looking at me and Coyote...we both:

  • are white.
  • have brown/hazel eyes.
  • right handed.
  • slightly below average height (I'm 5ft 3 inches, he's 5ft 10 inches).
  • have fairly high IQ's.
  • like reading and painting (he paints little models and I paint pictures)
  • Have mental health problems (I'm really hoping with this one that nurture will over ride nature).
  • Coyote is color blind, and I have at least one color blind family member (I think only men can be color blind, but women can pass it along).
  • suck at being tidy!
  • we both have a really good long term memory.
  • we have unattached earlobes.
  • and we both have fairly big soft lips (Coyote's are very kissable)
so those are things that baby is very likely to be. So baby is likely to be fair skinned, brown eyed, large lipped, right handed, short, clever, creative, crazy, color blind (if baby is a boy), messy and good at remembering things.  On the other hand:
  • I was very blonde when I was little, but my hair slowly got darker till now it's brown, Coyote was very blonde/ginger when he was little, but is now brown/ginger.
  • He's very near sighted, and I have 20/20 vision.
  • I can curl my tongue and he can't (in fact, I can turn my tongue upside down, but I'm weird)
  • he can whistle but I can't.
  • I absolutely suck at numbers, and he's very numerate.
  • I have a squidgy pug nose and he has a nice straight roman nose.
  • he has a great sense of direction and I can get lost in my own house.
I want to see what combination of these weird factors will turn up in baby! Which of these traits is dominant? which recessive? Surely someone clever should be able to tell me what baby is most likely to end up like given these traits?

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