Discover the genes inherited from our mother and those that come from our father

If you’ve ever heard the phrase, “you are just like your mother”, know that this statement is not quite true. In reality, we (especially women) are more like our fathers than our mothers.

Furthermore, it is believed that the father’s lifestyle until the child’s conception, as well as his diet and general physical condition, are the basis of the future baby’s health. In this post, we will reveal which traits are passed on to children by the father and which are inherited from the mother.

O awesome.club points out: it is necessary to remember that, even if you have what is called “good genetics”, it is essential to have a healthy lifestyle. Ultimately, it determines how you look and how you feel.

Most often, children inherit from their parents the shape of the tip of the nose, the area around the lips, the size of the cheekbones, the corners of the eyes, and the shape of the chin. These regions are crucial when it comes to telling if someone looks like someone else.

However, the space between the eyebrows is what usually differentiates parents and children.

The daughter of actress Reese Witherspoon inherited her blue eyes, the shape of her cheekbones, her chin and the tip of her nose from her mother.

The mother’s genes usually account for 50% of the baby’s DNA, and the father’s genes for the other 50%. So far, all very intuitive, right? It turns out that male genes are more “aggressive” than female ones, so they end up manifesting more often. So for 40% of the active genes coming from the hand, there could be 60% inherited from the father.

Not to mention that the body of a pregnant woman considers the fetus as if it were a foreign body. In order to maintain the child, it is necessary to put up with the presence of the “aggressive” paternal genes (sometimes at the expense of the maternal genes).

However, it is possible to determine which are the traits that the baby receives from the father and which are the ones that come from the mother.

The sex of the future baby depends on the father. The child always receives the X chromosome from the mother. From the father, he can receive the X chromosome (if the child is a girl) or the Y (when a boy is born).

If the man has many brothers in the family, he will have more children. If he has more sisters, he will father more girls than boys.🇧🇷 In some men, semen has an approximately equal content of X and Y chromosomes. In such cases, he is likely to have both daughters and sons, in more or less equal proportions.

The Y chromosome contains far fewer genes than the X chromosome, and some of them are responsible for the formation of male genitalia and sperm production. That is, the mother’s X chromosomes, with much more genes, end up interfering more in the characteristics, even of male children. Therefore, in most cases, the boy will receive characteristic traits of his appearance from his mother, making him look like her. Girls, on the other hand, get X chromosomes from both parents, so it’s harder to guess who they’ll look like.

If the father visits the dentist frequently, it is very likely that the same will happen to his son as well. Although the size and shape of the teeth, as well as the structure of the jaw, can be traits passed on by either parent, it is usually the paternal genes that end up predominating.

Therefore, if the parent has crooked teeth, it is quite possible that the child has a similar problem.

The genes responsible for intelligence are located on the X chromosome. Therefore, it is mothers who transmit mental abilities to their children. Daughters receive this trait from both their father and mother. However, only 40% of maternal intelligence is inherited, and the rest comes as a result of upbringing. Thanks to this, we can say that nothing can replace hard work in raising and developing children, in addition to a good investment in education.

On average, children’s intelligence quotient differs from their mother’s by a maximum of 15 points.

As men age, the quality of their sperm deteriorates. Because of this, Older people can pass on mutated genes to their children🇧🇷 This leads to an increased risk of developing mental illness, autism, hyperactivity or bipolar disorder in the child. In addition, some children of parents aged 45 and over may be more suicidal and have learning difficulties.

At any age, male representatives who suffer from coronary heart disease transmit the tendency to the disease to their children. And men with infertility problems, who have had children thanks to artificial procedures, also pass on a predisposition to the same type of problem to their offspring.

One of the most famous historical characters who suffered from hemophilia was the son of the Tsar of Russia, Aleksei. The photo on the left shows his great-grandmother, Queen Victoria of England, who was a carrier of the hemophilia gene, passed on to some of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

There are some diseases that are transmitted by the mother, but that only manifest in boys (in girls, the likelihood of these problems developing is minimal). This happens when a woman carries an X chromosome with a defective gene, and that is the chromosome passed on to her child. Unlike the mother, the boy has only one X chromosome, so there is no way to compensate for the mutated gene.

Among maternally transmitted diseases are hemophilia (blood clotting disorder) and Duchenne muscular dystrophy (progressive muscle weakness). Autism is most pronounced when it passes from mother to child.

The propensity for obesity, or its opposite, thinness, is also genetically transmitted. In some people, weight and waist diameter is 25% defined by genetics, but in most cases, this ratio is 40%. For people struggling with obesity, these figures can be as high as 75-80%, and in these cases it is especially difficult to get rid of extra pounds. For these people, diet and exercise are even more essential.

The tendency towards thinness or obesity is transmitted by both the father and the mother alike. However, the predisposition to thinness is passed on to a lesser extent than the tendency to overweight.

Although, it is the mother who influences the birth weight of the child. No matter the size of the father, the child will be born thin if the mother is thin. But if the mother is obese, then the baby may be born with a “fat reserve”.

A child’s height is more influenced by fathers than mothers. The children of tall men are larger at birth. In general, between 60% and 80% of a child’s height is determined by the parents, and the rest is a result of diet, lifestyle and health. Also, not all children of the same parent are the same height. Younger children tend to be shorter than their older siblings.

There are two formulas for determining the future height of the child.

If you have a boy, add the mother’s height to the father’s height and add another 13 centimeters. Divide the result by 2 and find out how tall your child will be. If you have a girl, add the mother’s height to the father’s height and decrease by 13 centimeters. Also divide the result by 2 to get the approximate height of your daughter. You need to measure the height of a girl at 18 months and a boy at two years old, and multiply the figure by 2. The result will likely be the height of your child as an adult — with a margin of error of 10 centimeters.

The brown color of the eyes is the dominant feature. So, if the father or mother (especially the father) has dark eyes, and the other has blue or green eyes, then the child is much more likely to be born with brown eyes.🇧🇷 There will be some chance the baby will be born with light eyes, but only if the dark-eyed parent has a recessive gene responsible for blue eyes.

Blue and green eyes are a result of recessive genes, but blue eyes are more dominant than green eyes.

However, the possibility of blue-eyed parents having brown-eyed babies is not excluded.

Dimples are a dominant feature. If at least one of the parents has dimples, there is a good chance that the child will too.

Curly hair is beautiful, and many mothers dream of having children with this characteristic. However, although the tendency to have curly hair is a dominant trait, the fact that only one parent has this trait is not enough.

The simplified version of the schema is as follows:

If both parents have curly hair, then the child will too. If both mom and dad have straight hair, then the baby will have straight hair. If one parent has curls and the other has straight hair, then the children will have wavy hair.

However, if both parents have curly hair but have straight haired relatives, then the child can be born without curls.

Look at family photos of both parents. Pay attention to the characteristics that are repeated in most relatives (angular nose, curly hair, dark eyes). Such features are dominant, and they are likely to appear in the future child.

Which of your parents are you most like? And in your child’s case, who does he or she remember the most? Leave a comment!