Do you look more like your mother or your father?
YO MOMMA.... haha jus kiddinng well....i have been told that i look mostly like my mother. i completely disagree, though. my father and i look identical; and it doesnt help that he looks so supeer young. and i admit that [ofcourse] my mom and i look simiar; maybe like cousins, though--and most of the time, cousins do not even look related. but i really see my own appearnce from my dad's side of the family. i have most of his peronality traits, too. but its just too gosh darn bad that he had to die so early in my life. i only know how he looks from photographs and memories of when i was 6 and younger. good luck with your answers......hope mine brought you interest and helped out!!<3 ;]
Will most women (men) really look like their mothers (fathers) when they grow old?
Not necessarily. In fact, you should look to a woman’s paternal grandmother.Males are designated by XY chromosomes, while females are designated by XX chromosomes. Males are merely carriers of the X chromosome, so they pass down the exact copy of their mother’s X chromosome to their daughters. Therefore, women inherit most genetic material from their paternal grandmother.My paternal grandmother had ten children and four sons, and though she died while I was very young (I was the youngest child of her youngest child), I can see this genetic factor amongst the many daughters of her sons. If you lined us all up, you would see how much we look alike. We all have similar slender builds as our 90lb grandmother for one thing! My cousins on my mother’s side do not even look like they’re related to me.Lifestyle factors make a huge difference as well. If you learned bad habits from your mother and continue them into adulthood, those would also affect aging and bodyweight. It’s interesting to get your 23andme testing done for these reasons. While my bodyweight was predicted, based on genetics, to be 14% lower than average, my actual weight was 25 lbs lower than what they predicted for me. They attributed this factor to lifestyle choices, and I do take careful care with my diet and exercise.Science aside, I have always joked that I turned into my father. We have the exact same personality.I think it’s best to remember that human choice is a huge factor in our destinies, in regards to anything.
Is it normal I look more like my aunt then my mother?
Yes, its normal. It really depends on your genetic markers and which is more dominant. I look just like my aunt (dad's sister) to the point we could pass for sisters (she isn't all that much older than me, my dad is like 20 years older than her). And, she is my dad's half sister (same mom, different dad's). While I do resemble my dad, I look more like his sister than him. My mom - standing next to her unless you knew us you wouldn't think we were even related. I don't look anything like my mom. My mom has straight blonde hair, blue eyes, light skin complexion, and tall. I have very curly and very dark almost black hair, blue eyes, dark skin complexion (Italian ancestry on my dad's side) and I'm short. Her eyes and my eyes are blue but different colors of blue, that I also got from my dad's side. I have 2 brothers and neither of them look like my mom either. They both look like our dad. My brothers both have a daughter and both of my nieces... look like me. My nieces don't look like my brothers or their mothers. One of my nieces looks like me to the point that she saw an old picture of me around her age (6) and she thought it was her.
Whom do you like more: your mother or your father? Why?
When I was younger it was my dad because my dad was fun, charismatic, he took my brother, sister, and I on a lot of road trips to Arkansas every year to visit his parents in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. My sister, dad, and I were heavily into basketball, so he took us to alot of basketball games. and he was involved in the community. He pastored a church for years, and his members loved him. He formed church basketball teams, he did alot of community outreach.He became a lot more cynical and angry when he got older due to a disenchantment with his religious beliefs which radically changed for him. I also think there was some slight mental illness kicking in…not totally sure though. He also had an affair that we all discovered. That may have made things worse too. My parents stayed together though. They were married for over 50 years.My relationship grew closer with my mom when I got older. She has always instilled alot in us as well, but she was abusive when we were younger. The corporal punishment was a bit much.It was important that she apologized for that. We have a very close relationship now, especially now that I am inquiring about my ancestors. She tells me so much. With her living in Arkansas, and me in California, our conversations take away from her occasional loneliness even though she is still active in her communtiy at 80 years old. My dad died 5 years ago.
Why do i look nothing like my mom or dad?
I look nothing like my mom or dad. My mom has brown eyes and my dad has blue. I have green, just like my aunt(1). my moms hair is really thin, the same goes with my dad. Yet, i have really think hair, which i get from my aunt(2). My parents have long legs but small from the waist up. Me on the other hand has long legs and a long torso. What is wrong with me. And i know im not adopted! But i want to know why i don't look like my parents. PLease help!!!
Do you look more like your Mom Or Dad?
Well...It very hard to tell... Most people tell me that I look like my Mother. Then people tell me I look like my Father. Then one person said that I looked like a vampire of my Mother AND Father. I don't know which to go by.
Do first children resemble their father more than their mother?
I don't know about in general, but I can speak from my own personal experience. I look just like my father and his mother, and it's only recently as an adult do I sort of look like my mother. I am the first born in my family. My son, who is my first born, looked exactly like baby pictures of my youngest brother when he was born, so I thought that meant he would like like me. I was extremely wrong. My son looks like my husband spit him out. They are definitely twins.This is me and my dad:This is me and my mom (with my daughter, who is my second born):This is my son and my husband:And this is me and my son (who I’d like to think looks like me, but he clearly favors his father more):So, this theory happened to work in my family, but that might not necessarily be the same for other people. Sometimes it's too hard to tell who the baby looks like because each parents genes are so strong that it's hard to tell. And I have friends whose firstborns clearly favor their mother. It happens. There is no hard and fast rule about who the firstborn is going to look like. All of our features change as we grow older anyway.
Is it true that daughters look more like their fathers, and sons look more like their mothers? If so, why?
No. Lots of sons look more like their fathers and lots of daughters look more their mothers. Plus, many brothers looks significantly different from each other, as with sisters. This would not be the case if all boys resembled mothers and all girls resembled fathers. A kid can look like either parent or even other relatives in the family. A kid can even be an almost 50% mix of both parents that it’s hard to say who the kid resembles more.If anything, I see most first-born boys having at least a significant resemblance to their fathers and most first-born daughters having at least a significant resemblance to their mothers. Plus, some kids grow up to resemble one parent even more than they did as a kid. But from my observation, kids are more likely to grow up resembling their same gendered parent more than they initially did, no matter which parent they generally look more like compared to the other way around. I hardly see any kid growing up to look more like their opposite gendered parent than he/she initially did as a kid.In my family, I’m the oldest (girl) and most people say I resemble my mom more. But I do have a significant resemblance to my dad too, just not as much as my mom. The older of my two younger brothers looks more like my dad. The younger of my two brothers looks more like my mom. He was born a carbon-copy of my mom. Now, at 21, he still looks more like my mom and her side and his most of his facial features are still clearly from my mom and/or her family. But yet, he doesn’t resemble my mom as much as he did as a child. A small amount of people even say he looks more like my dad now, though most agree he looks more like my mom and her side. This is in reference to my point in the paragraph above, that even if my youngest brother resembles my mother more and was born her carbon-copy, he doesn’t resemble her as much as he did as child and resembles my dad more than he did as a child (even if he still resembles my mom more in general).
I'm a girl and I look like my dad and not my mom?
I have his smile, his eyes, his eyebrows, his hair color (black), his freckles, I have his moms and sisters body features. Is this normal to be a girl and look nothing like your mom? I look exactly like an identical of my dad in a girl version. But I'm kinda having his as a kid body features and it makes me feel ugly...
Can a child look more like their grandparent's, rather than their parents? If so, why? How common is this?
Definitely yes, My daughter is living proof.Dominant and recessive genes mean some traits can be carried without showing. For example my Dad (white Australian) had red hair and blue eyes and my mum (Aboriginal Australian) had very dark brown (almost black) hair and brown eyes. Me and my siblings all various shades of brown hair. 3 of us have brown eyes and my sister got amazing green eyes (from my mum's father). Our skin tones ranged from dark brown to white.My first-born son had dark hair, brown eyes and had a ‘Mongolian spot’ on his buttocks which usually indicates he will have dark skin.My husband and I are both have Aboriginal Ancestry so we were expecting this.3 years after my daughter was born with a tinge of red in hair, blue eyes and white skin.This was them aged about 5 and 2 years of age.We got many strange looks, strangers would ask if they are really siblings with same mother and father!Edit:Photo of my ‘babies’ taken about 5 years ago.Photo of my Dad (sorry it's not a great photo)