Let’s bust out those 9th grade biology textbooks
& long forgotten Punnett Squares. I want to know what my daughter is going to look like
and I don’t want to wait another ??? hours until she’s here.
But getting down to business… what are our best guesses for how she’ll look?
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| Maybe like this? |
- Eye color: Alice has blue eyes (recessive, homozygous) and I have brown eyes (dominant, heterozygous because my mom has blue eyes). UPDATE @ 4:10: I meant to write here earlier that there is a 75% chance she'll have blue eyes. All the better to navigate glaciers in a European Ice Age. (link)
- Hair: Big open question. We expect it to be curly. There’s a fair chance it’ll be red. It shouldn’t be straight & black.
- To run through the rest of my hazy AP bio list:
- Widow’s Peak? No!
- Hitchhikers Thumb? Nada.
- Beautician’s Knee? Mortician’s Clavicle? Zookeeper’s Philtrum? No, no, no!
But I want to know now! I’ve employed the help of not-so-sophisticated
facial generation software to cut to the chase. Here are two admittedly horrendous composites of Baby England in the year 2045.
Composite #1: Not the worst
This version of our daughter looks less feminine than I was
hoping for. She appears to be best suited for an Alice in Chains cover band.
Composite #2: A result so grotesque she makes me cringe
I don’t know what to say about this one aside from it seems
to produce audible revulsion in 50% of those who view it. You've been warned!
It is really hard to shake that image. Maybe it’s best just to wait until
she’s here.
