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Now that you have read the directions and you have been assigned the role of the Hair Color Specialist, your job now is to research how hair color is inherited. When doing your research you need to find out what color of hair the unborn children will most likely have, based on what color of hair the parents have. When doing your research use the sites below to find your information. Learn as much as you can. Remember, for your final project you are going to explain to the parents why their child will have the hair color you predict. This means you need to have evidence to support your predictions. Now it's ti

Parents A

Parents B

Parents C

Parents D

The mother, Jane has blonde hair and blue eyes. She is married to her husband, Rick who has brown hair and brown eyes. They are expecting a baby in January and are curious what the little bundle-of-joy will look like. Can you help them?

Hope, the mother, has brown eyes and brown hair. Her husband, Steve, also has hazel eyes and sandy blonde hair. They are expecting to have a baby in July. Can you please give them a clue of what their baby will look like?

Father, Scott has brown hair and green eyes. Mother, Kristin has red hair and green eyes. They are planning the arrival of a new child in September. What should they expect their child to look like?

Jason, who has blue eyes and blonde hair, married Natalie who also has red hair and green eyes. They expect their new baby in April. Will it definitely have the same hair and eyes as mom and dad?

Links

http://www.babyzone.com/features/content/display.asp?TopicID=2140&ContentID=643

http://www.unm.edu/~bioanth3/appearance/eye_&_hair_color.htm

http://www.keratin.com/as/as005.shtml
http://www.thetech.org/gentics/ask.php?id=48
Additional sites
http://www.biology-online.org/2/8_mutations.htm
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/medicine/assist.shtml

me for you to become the Hair Color Specialist.