Do you really inherit eye color from your parents?

Answer 1

Through the X chromosome, usually from a mother, (whom does not show any signs of colour blindness, yet she is a CARRIER of the X chromosome) passed down to son. Males usually get this because they only posses ONE X, in their XY life.

Answer 2

Yes, eye color is determined by genetics passed down from your parents. Specific genes control the amount of melanin in the iris, which determines whether someone will have blue, green, brown, or other eye colors.

Answer 3

If "color blindness" means the ability to "judge an individual by the content of their character" and not by the "color of their skin", I believe the answer is yes. I believe the habit of "color blindness", like the habit of "color prejudice", is first and fundamentally learn from a child's parents.

Ignore the above answer, I don't know what that person was thinking. Yes, you can get color blindness from your parents. In fact, that is the most common way to get it. Please keep in mind that if a male is colorblind, the mother must be either color blind, or a carrier, and if a female is blind, the mother is either color blind or a carrier, and the father is color blind. Because of this, more males are color blind than females.

Answer 4

Males inherit color-blindness from their mothers.

Females inherit color-blindness from both parents.

Answer 5

Males inherit the gene from their mothers.

Answer 6

it is inherited from parents who have inherited from their parents.

Answer 7

Yes, you inherit eye color from parents, grand parents, or grand grand parents, or may be further family roots.

Answer 8

No