I have blonde hair, hazel eyes, and light skin. My boyfriend has black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin. Since he has all of the dominant genes, I was curious as to what our kid(s) might look like. Can anyone help me out?
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Unlike the way it is taught in introductory biology courses, skin color, hair color and eye color are all traits controlled by multiple genes that interact in complex ways. So while there is a tendency to have children resemble one parent or the other, blending is possible as well as children who are entirely unlike either parent. For example, it is estimated that between 6 and 16 genes affect eye color and it is possible for children to have any eye color regardless of what the parents are. So the bottom line is that your question can't be reliably answered.
You can read more about eye color here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color and skin color here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skin_color
If he's homozygous dominant, your child will have black hair, brown eyes, and probably mixed skin. If he is heterozygous dominant there is a chance that your baby can carry recessive genes. Just go back a generation and see what his parents are like.