Talk:Rocco Falconeri/@comment-5660329-20140302022926/@comment-3418856-20140317070140

If you want to get technical, no, a blonde child does not have to have a blonde parent. In fact, both my parents have dark hair and my sister is blonde. I also know many blonde people who have 2 biological dark-haired parents. To get a blonde child, you need two recessive alleles (dd). To get dark hair, you can either have two dominate alleles (DD), or one dominate and one recessive (Dd). Therefore, if both parents are Dd, then they can both pass down the recessive allele and end up with a blonde child (dd).