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Originally Posted by MLE
you actually get your grandparent's genes, technically. that's why a lot of genetically inherited things skip a generation.
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That's a misinterperatation. There are a handful of things like male-pattern baldness and colorblindness that only appears to skip a generation because the parent that it is passed through (the mother) cannot be effected by it (they can only be passed to the opposite gender child as well). Genes like eye color and height come from the
family genes. Meaning each parent contains any number of genes that it can pass to its child, whether they show signs of it in themselves or not. For example, both parents may be short, and all the grandparents may be as well, but an uncle may be exceptionally tall so that tallness is in the parent's genes and
may be passed along. There is a higher chance if it is from the parent though.
And example is that nobody on both sides of my family has large breasts except for my mother and my sisters, so that was immediately passed on. And on the other side of that coin, my grandparent's on my father's side had rather straight teeth, but I was the only one in my family to have naturally straight teeth without the need of braces.
So there is no distinct place where your attributes come from, it is just randomly inserted from a cache of genes from each parent.