Anyone Know Much about Genetics?

[ClarabelleCowFan]

My oldest daughter and my oldest great niece (oldest grandaughter of my half sister) look SO much alike that they are often mistaken for twins even though they are technically 2nd cousins. The girls are just over a year apart and have almost identical builds - both skinny minnies with long legs, EXACT same hair color, very similar eyes and noses.

Today they noticed that each one of them is developing a small mole on their left leg in EXACTLY the same spot. Neither one has any other moles on them.

I have heard about identical twins developing cavities in the same teeth at the same time and things like that but the similarities between these 2 girls is just phenomenal.

Are these all just coincidences or did they just pull the same straws from the genetic family gene pool?

Both also have little sisters that they don't resemble at all (and no those 2 dont look like each other either).

 

[agnes!]

I don't know about genetics, but wanted to mention my own family-resemblance story. I have seen movies of different relatives when each was about the same age & the resemblances were astonshing. One was my 1st cousin(my mother's brother's family) when he was a toddler, the other was the son of another cousin(my mother's sister's family)...these two men, when they were both toddlers looked so much alike it is freaky! Also, if you look at photos of my niece(my sister's daughter) & me when we were both younger, we looked *very* much alike.

agnes!

 

[ClarabelleCowFan]

How cool, Agnes!

 

[poohandwendy]

I have read that moles can be inherited, even the location of them.

I think they pulled the same DNA straws, lol. It's so cool to see how people are connected in ways like that.

 

[poohandwendy]

I don't know about genetics, but wanted to mention my own family-resemblance story. I have seen movies of different relatives when each was about the same age & the resemblances were astonshing. One was my 1st cousin(my mother's brother's family) when he was a toddler, the other was the son of another cousin(my mother's sister's family)...these two men, when they were both toddlers looked so much alike it is freaky! Also, if you look at photos of my niece(my sister's daughter) & me when we were both younger, we looked *very* much alike.

agnes!

I know what you mean, it is startling to see how much my neice resembles my late father (her maternal grandfather). We have pictures of them both aroung the same age that look so much alike, most people think it is the same child, if you ignore the 60 year difference in eras. I often wonder if she will resemble him as an adult though? Often kids will show very striking similarities with their relatives during different periods of their childhood and then those things sort of change as they grow and they mature into their 'own look', so to speak.

Fascinating stuff.