Is there a disorder which makes children not look like their parents?

i have two parents with stark blonde, straight, thin hair. mine is thick, curly and dark black. they have light skin, and i am a little darker. they have brown eyes, mine are blue. i am 5'7 and my mother is 5'3, my father is 5'7 as well. i have no facial characteristics similair to either one. no one on either side of the family look like me. my family is full of athletes, and i have zero athletic ability.


is this just a coincdence? ive often wondered about it.

Is there a disorder which makes children not look like their parents?
If your parents' hair is blonde (naturally), and you are dark, then you are probably not their child. The blonde hair color is recessive, so you couldn't have gotten dark black from either of them.
Reply:R u adopted??
Reply:It's not a disease, it's genetics. You are not a carbon coppy or clone of your parents or grandparents or great grandparents. You are a complex and unique combination of them all.
Reply:you dont only look like your parents. your parents also carry genes of there parents and so on...so you can possibly look like your grandmother or grandfather or even possibly your great grandmother and great grandfather.
Reply:It is not a disorder that makes us look different from our parents. The traits that you are talking about have so many things that factor into determining the actual trait of a person, height and skin color. The hair color is pretty straight forward. However, if both of your parents are true blonds, then um all the children should be blond. Because blond hair is a recessive trait. Which means it requires two alleles of the same gene to be expressed in a person. So, you might want to talk to mom about that, because she could have been dipping in the cheaters dip.
Reply:Have you ever asked them? If you are worried, you can send it DNA samples to a company on the web and find out. You put a swab in your cheek. I guess you could get a glass they have used and try that. Who knows? I am not the FBI. I do know someone that did this and found out the man who is her father.
Reply:It is very likely that you got recessive genes. Lucky you! To have so many recessive genes isn't very common. You are very lucky and special!





Not a coincidence, just genetics.





However the zero athletic ability, I am not sure how much genetics if factored into that...
Reply:if you know that you are not adopted, then the answer maybe in your genetics.


you don't necessarily need to look like your parents or have the same characteristics as them.


you may resemble someone in your extended family, as long as you are blood related, you share the same genes. therefore they can be passed onto you.


just talk to your family and relatives about it, you may find someone who you take after, good luck athena!