What determines eye color?

Answer 1

http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html If you go to that website it has explanations on how eye color is determined or inherited. You can also get precentages of a baby's possible eye color by following the instructions for the eye color calculator.

Answer 2

Eye color is determined by the amount and distribution of a pigment called melanin in the iris of the eye. The more melanin present, the darker the eye color. Genetic factors also play a significant role in determining eye color.

Answer 3

The genetics of eye color are more complicated than previously thought. Color is determined by multiple genes. The genetics of eye color are so complex, that almost any parent-child combination of eye colors can occur.

Answer 4

The amount of melanin gives color to your eyes, skin, and hair. I think that's the question you're asking but, just in case, I'll answer the only other question I think you might be asking. A punnet square is a table that can determine the percentage of the offspring's eye color being blue, green, brown, and possibly other colors that I am not aware of. It all depends on the genes of the grandparents. However, even if the percentage of a certain eye color is zero percent, it doesn't mean it is impossible for the offspring to have that color eyes.

Sorry if you were expecting more details for melanin or if I said too much or too little on punnet squares. I could just keep talking forever. :P

Answer 5

The genetics of eye color are more complicated than previously thought. Color is determined by multiple genes. The genetics of eye color are so complex, that almost any parent-child combination of eye colors can occur.

Answer 6

It depends on the eye color genes of the parents. If the mother has a recessive eye color, such as blue, and the father has a dominant eye color, like brown, then the baby will have the father's eye color because brown is dominant over blue. If both parents have recessive colors, blue, only then will the baby be born with blue eyes. Only if both parents have the recessive gene.

Blue+Blue=Blue

Brown+Brown=Brown

Brown+Blue=Brown

It all just depends on the parents.

Answer 7

The genes of your parents will determine your eye color.

Answer 8

A combination of the genetics from each parent determines the eye colour of their offspring. Therefore both parents determine eye colour.

Answer 9

Both parents pass on alleles that determine eye colour to their offspring. It doesn't depend on one or another parent specifically.

Answer 10

There are more that one set of chromosomes that determine eye color.