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There had to be blue eyes within your genealogy. You need two recessive genes to produce blue eyes. Still, the bottom line is, it is very possible. There are individuals in my family that have blue eyes with parents that have brown eyes.

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Brown eyes (represented by a capital B) are the dominant gene and blue eyes (represented by a lowercase b) are not so common. To get blue eyes from having parents with brown eyes, it just means that your parents have one brown gene and one blue, normally from their parents or grandparents. The brown is dominant so that's what you see, but that means that you have can have BB (brown), Bb (brown), or bb (blue).

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Both parents would be required to be a carrier of the blue eyed gene.

In this scenario, the parents' blue eyed gene would be the recessive gene. This means that unless the cells of both parents contained the blue eyed gene, the child would have brown eyes as the brown eyed gene would be dominant over the blue eyed gene (if one parent's cell had brown eyes and the other had blue). So essentially, there could be a 25-50% chance of the child having blue eyes, if the child fell within that percentile, they would have blue eyes.

Another way to think about it is that in an ideal world if the parents had four children, one or two of them (most likely one) would be born with blue eyes.

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Genes can be recessive. Blue eyes can come from your grandparents on either side.

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the question does not make any sense... the color of my parents' eye effect your eye color?

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Some traits skip generations, going from grandparents to grandchildren.

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Both parents carried brown eyes as a recessive gene.

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Your features such as eyes, ears or your height do not always come from your genes.

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Q: Why do you have brown eyes when both your mother and father have blue eyes?
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Can a blue eyed male with both his parents having blue eyes marries a brown eyed female with her mother having blue eyes and her father having brown eyes could they have a brown eyed child?

Yes. Brown is dominant for eye color.


If you crossed a homozygous dominant man with brown eyes with a homozygous recessive woman with blue eyes what color or colors would their children have?

I don't know what your scientific terms mean, but I can tell you that I am a blue eyed female (my father was brown eyed/my mother had hazel eyes). The father of my two children is brown eyed. Both of my children have blue eyes.


What color eyes will baby have if mother has black eyes and father has brown eyes?

my husband and i both have brown hair and brown eyes but our daughter has blonde hair and blue eyes her doctor told me this was rare and she had about a 25% chance of this happening but my mother is blonde hair blue eyes and my husbands father had blue eyes so the gene is there its just rare that it happened


Why daughter is similar to dad?

If you mean physical traits like appearance, these are passed genetically to children by both mother and father. Some genetic traits are dominant and some are recessive. If the father has dominant traits, such as brown eyes, while the mother has recessive traits, like blue eyes, it is more likely that brown eyes will be passed to either a son or daughter.


My mother had dark brown eyes my father has beautiful blue colour she was A negative he is A positive i have blue eyes and also A positive blood there are no siblings am i related or not?

Yes, you are related. Depending on what genes you received from each parent determines you blood type and eye color. Both mom and dad have A blood so so you have a possibility for A or O blood type depending on their alleles. Now if you had B blood, I would say your father really isn't yours. Eye color works the same way. With the eyecolor, you have a possibility of having almost any shade of eyecolor between brown and blue. My mother is blue eyed and my father had brown eyes i have brown eyes. My husband has blue eyes and my daughter has blue eyes. You can see how they can change through generations depending on the alleles.

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Blue eyed father brown eyed mother blue eyed grandfather of the father what color eye will offspring have?

Brown. My sister and I both have brown eyes. My grandparents on my fathers side and my grandmother on my mothers side were all blue eyed. My mother and her father had brown eyes. The genes for brown eyes are more dominant.


What color eyes and hair will a baby have if a father has blond hair and blue eyes and the mother has brown hair and brown eyes?

Probably brown hair and eyes; blue and blonde are both genetically "weaker" traits.


Can a blue eyed male with both his parents having blue eyes marries a brown eyed female with her mother having blue eyes and her father having brown eyes could they have a brown eyed child?

Yes. Brown is dominant for eye color.


What color will your baby's eyes be if the father has br eyes and br hair and mother has br hair and br eyes but the fathers dad has blue eyes and blonde hair?

Well it depends also what color eye the mother's parents or any of the parents siblings have. Mother's Parents (both brown eyes) 5.1% blue eyes & 8.5% green eyes & 86.3% brown eyes Mother's Parents (green eyes & brown eyes) 7.8% blue eyes & 17.1& green eyes & 75% brown eyes Mother Parents (blue eyes & brown eyes) 14% blue eyes & 10.9% green eyes & 75% brown eyes Throwing siblings into the mix Mother's Parents (both brown eyes) Mother's Siblings (blue & green eyes) 8.0% blue eyes & 8.6% green eyes & 83.3% brown eyes Mother's Parents (both brown eyes) Mother's Siblings (blue eyes) 8.0% blue eyes & 8.6% green eyes & 83.3% brown eyes Mother's Parents (both brown eyes) Mother's Siblings (green eyes) 5.8% blue eyes & 10.8% green eyes & 83.3% brown eyes ...and so on


Can a green eyed father and a brown eyed mother have a child with blue eyes or green eyes?

Yes. Both parents could have the gene for green/blue eyes as a recessive gene.


What color hair and eye will a baby have if the father has strawberry blonde hair and brown eyes and the mother has blonde hair and blue eyes?

It will have no eyes. So there! The child probably will have a lighter haircolour, and it can have both brown eyes and blue eyes,


If you crossed a homozygous dominant man with brown eyes with a homozygous recessive woman with blue eyes what color or colors would their children have?

I don't know what your scientific terms mean, but I can tell you that I am a blue eyed female (my father was brown eyed/my mother had hazel eyes). The father of my two children is brown eyed. Both of my children have blue eyes.


What color a baby's eyes will be if mothers eyes are dark brown and fathers eyes are light brown and both of baby's grandmothers have blue eyes?

14% blue eyes 10.9% green eyes 75% brown eyes Although the precentages could change if the mother or father had siblings with blue or green eyes.


Can a baby have blue eyes if father has brown eyes and mother has blue eyes?

It is very possible to have a blue eye child if both parents have different eye colors. It's also possible to have kids that have different eye colors.


How will you know what color eyes and hair will your baby haveif the father has brown hair and brown eyes and the mother has blonde hair and blue eyes?

brown eyes are dominant over blue eyes. hair colors can mix, or be one or the other. for both, you need to go further back in both your gene pools for more evidence.


Why to be blue-eyed an individual must have a recessive blue-eyed gene from both its mother and father?

Hi, It is only when both parents have or give the blue-eye gene that you will get a baby with blue ete. If one parent gives blue and the other one brown you will get a brown eye baby. The brown eye gene is stonger then the blue and will "win" over it. A lot of babies are born with blue eyes but then they chang to their actual color after a while. Hope this helps!


What is the likelihood of having a brown eyed baby if both mother and father are blond and blue eyed?

Zero. Blue eyes come from a recessive gene (brown eyes come from a dominant gene). So two blue-eyed parents have only blue-eye genes in them. Therefore, they can pass only blue-eye genes to their baby.