Eye Color and Genetics?!


Question: Eye Color and Genetics?
So I was looking at a genetic chart and it shows that a person with brown eyes and a person with blue eyes cannot produce a green eyed child. Is this correct? I am asking because I have green eyes, but my dad has brown eyes and my mom has blue. My brother has brown.

Answers:

The chart is incorrect. A blue eyed parent and a brown eyed parent will have children with blue, green, hazel or brown eyes.

I'm an optometrist.



Yes it is possible for you to have green eyes because your grandparents may have green eyes. This is called a recessivetrait, which means it is hidden by the dominant trait, the one that occurs the most. Apparently, from your info, your mom passed on 1 recessive trait(g) and your dad passed on 1 rrecessiverait(g) which became(gg) and therefor you have green eyes.

We learned this in science today. What a coincidence!!! :::))))



Not true.
1] there are several more genes than one pair involoved with eye color.
2] my mom's dad had light blue, and mom had dark brown eyes.
The oldest has blue; second has brown, and third has green!
3] my husband's niece has dark brown; her husb has blue.
Their oldest has brown; second blue, and youngest green.

RN - and genetics experience



Yeah it maybe genetics because even though my eyes are a green/hazel color change during the seasons my parents both have a dark brown color and on my mother's side of the family my great grandmother is half irish half indian...so thats where my eye color came from so thats where my eye color came from...a huge generation skip!




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