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If Patrick has red hair and his parents have brown hair Patrick's trait must be?
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∙ 12y ago
one of his parents must have the red-hair allele, but they both have brown hair so they are both hetereozygous with the dominant brown allele.
Patrick's red hair is homozygous recessive
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Is it possible for blue eyed parents to have a brown eyed baby?
Yes, buy only if the parents are heterozygous for the trait and if the trait is dominant.
What is a small piece of DNA that tells a cell how to express a trait?
DNA uses chromosomes 23 from your mom, and 23 from your dad. (46 together). If both your parents have brown eyes, there's a big chance of getting brown eyes.If both your parents have brown eyes and you get blue eyes that is a ressesive trait.
How do you get brown eyes from blue eyed parents?
if you go back to the beginning of your family tree, maybe a family member had brown eyes brown eyes is a dominate trait and blue eyes is a recessive trait, even tho they may both show the recessive trait they may both poses the brown eyes dominate trait and pass it onto you and you will show it. as the name implies you are more likely to show the dominate trait (75% chance dominate and 255 chance recessive). interestingly enough this means that you do have the recessive blue eye trait but you do not show it.
What is a trait that will appear in yhe offspring if one of the parents contributes it?
In order for a recessive trait to appear in the offspring, it must inherit a recessive allele for that trait from both parents.
Are brown eyes a dominant trait?
Yes.
Is it possible for blue eyed parents to have a brown eyed baby?
Yes, buy only if the parents are heterozygous for the trait and if the trait is dominant.
If you have green eyes and both your parents have brown eyes what kind of trait does your parents have?
They both carried the gene for green eyes as a recessive trait.
Why do you have green eyes and your parents have brown?
Your parents carried the gene for green eyes as a recessive trait.
If a child has blue eyes and both her parents have brown eyes what does that tell you about the trait for blue eyes?
That the trait for blue eyes was recessive in both parents.
Is brown fur an inherited trait of the brown bear?
yep! this is because it's parents had brown fur, and it was genetically in his blood! help?
Is is possible for two brown eyed parents to have a blue eyed baby if three of the grandparents are brown eyed?
Yes, because brown eyes are the dominate trait, blue eyes might be the "hidden trait." one of the grandparents have the hidden trait, they passed it onto the parent, and the the blue eyes trait became dominate in the child.
How can you get brown from a blue and green eyes from your parents?
Most likely from another relative as a recessive trait.
The parents of Tim have brown eyes but Tim has blue eyes so How is this possible?
Tim's parents both have the recessive trait for blue eyes but their brown eye traits are the dominant ones that show. Time must have by chance gotten both the recessive genes from his parents and no brown eye genes thus his blue eyes go without the brown taking over.
What is a small piece of DNA that tells a cell how to express a trait?
DNA uses chromosomes 23 from your mom, and 23 from your dad. (46 together). If both your parents have brown eyes, there's a big chance of getting brown eyes.If both your parents have brown eyes and you get blue eyes that is a ressesive trait.
If a child has blue eyes and both parents have brown eyess what does that tell you about the trait?
The gene for blue eyes is recessive.
How do you get brown eyes from blue eyed parents?
if you go back to the beginning of your family tree, maybe a family member had brown eyes brown eyes is a dominate trait and blue eyes is a recessive trait, even tho they may both show the recessive trait they may both poses the brown eyes dominate trait and pass it onto you and you will show it. as the name implies you are more likely to show the dominate trait (75% chance dominate and 255 chance recessive). interestingly enough this means that you do have the recessive blue eye trait but you do not show it.
If your uncle has eyes that change from hazel to gray and you have brown eyes and both of your parents have brown eyes do you have that as a recessive trait hazel eyes that change to gray eyes?
Possibly.
