Mothers who are pregnant must have imagined, what does your face look like? Si Little later? Is her face more similar Ayes or Bdelay? Will her hair be curly like Bunda or straight like Awell?Let's find out what really determines who the child's face and character will look like.
The youngest's face is more like his father, but his character is more like Mother. While the Eldest has a character more like his father, but his face is not the same. How come can you do that? When the sperm meets the egg, there is a combination of genes that will then appear to be the characteristics of the child. Several genes work together so that there are genes that are weakened, strengthened, or even become invisible at all.
Determined Dominant Gene
Each child inherits 50% of the DNA from each parent, but certain genes from the mother or father are dominant. This is the reason the youngest's skin can be dark like Mother but has a facial character that is more like his father's. While the Eldest's face can resemble Mother's, but his skin color is more like his father's. However, if the faces of the brothers and sisters look similar, it means that they have inherited the same mix of genes.
Your little one can even inherit certain expressions and postures, such as your mother's frowning brow when she thinks. In addition, if the father experiences hair loss or baldness, the child may also experience it at a certain age.
Face shapes with certain characteristics such as high eyebrows, dimples, sharp or snub noses can be passed down in families. Likewise with the shape of the hands, fingers, hair shape. Even the shape and position of the teeth with each other can also be the same. So that often we can see a similar face shape in a large family.
Height Is Also Influenced By Genes
Not only face shape and certain characteristics, it turns out that genetics can also affect a child's height later. To predict the child's height, namely through the height data of both parents. You can calculate it with this formula:
Boy = ((height of mother+father) divided by 2) + 5cm
Daughter = ((height of mother+father) divided by 2) - 5cm
However, apart from genetic factors, there are various other things such as health and nutrition that can make your little one shorter or taller than their parents.
Although genetically potentially tall, but a child can have a medium height, if lack of exercise or lack of consumption of healthy nutrition.
In addition, the child's height can also be influenced by the nutrition consumed by the mother and the mother's health condition during pregnancy, for example if the mother has gestational diabetes. There's also research that has found that children of parents who don't resemble each other are more likely to grow taller and more mentally intelligent.
However, the physical appearance of each child can still continue to change, because the new bone structure is fully formed in their 20s. The shape of a person's face and body is determined by the shape of his bones, muscles, and body fat reserves. So even though as a child he looks like his mother, as he gets older he can become more like his father.
Like whoever the Little One will be, Mother and Father are expected to always be ready to support their optimal growth and development.
