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A person can only pass on genes that he/she has inherited from his/her parents. You may be talking about a situation in which a recessive gene is not expressed in a child because it inherited a dominant allele as well, and is heterozygous for that trait. If that child then has his/her own child, the recessive trait could be expressed in the children of that child, if the other parent also carries the recessive allele.

Example: One parent has brown eyes, the other has blue eyes. Their child inherited a brown eye allele and a blue eye allele, and has brown eyes, but is heterozygous. This child then has a child with another brown-eyed person, and their offspring has blue eyes, even though both parents have brown eyes. It just so happens that both of these parents are heterozygous for brown eyes, so they both carry the recessive blue-eyed allele which they each passed on to their blue-eyed offspring. So, this makes it look like the blue-eyed allele skipped a generation, but in reality it was always there, but not always expressed.

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Can brown eye parents have green eye child?

It is possible, since the brown eyes could be a recessive or dominant trait in either the mother's or father's genotypes, and the father and mother might just be carriers of the brown eye gene in their genotype.


Can black haired mom and blonddad have blond child?

Well, actually yes it also depends in bouth mom and dad geneticts if the mother Or father of the mom had blond hair and dad has blond hair, well the kid has more Chanses to be blond but if the mother or father of dad have black hair and mom have black hair well the kid have more Chanses of having black hair...or the kid can be born blond and when he grow up the hair can turn black... So it all depends but yes it can happend.


Colorblind male not colorblind female can there kid be color blind?

He will always be colorblind in that case because the defective gene is carried on the "X" chromosome, which males only have one of. You see, the colorblindness gene is recessive, which means if it is paired with a regular color seeing gene it is hidden, and the person can still see the difference between red and green. Because males have only one "X" chromosome, if they get the colorblindness gene from their mother, it will always lead to colorblindness. Side note: Males cannot receive the colorblindness gene from their Father, as he cannot give a "X" chromosome to his son. If he did, his son would be a daughter.


Can a blue eyed man and a brown eyed woman make a blue eyed kid?

Theoretically, a blue eyed man and a blue eyed woman cannot produce a brown-eyed child. The reason is that neither parent carries the brown-eyed gene. If the father or mother did carry the brown-eyed gene, the eyes/irises of that parent would be brown. The gene for brown is dominant over the gene for blue. However, two brown eyed parents can produce a blue eyed child. In that case, each parent with brown eyes must carry the gene for blue - the parents' eyes are brown because the brown gene is dominant over the blue gene. However, if the child inherits a blue gene from both brown eyed parents, the result will be blue eyes although both parents have brown eyes. In the case of one parent with brown eyes and one parent with blue eyes, there is a possibility that the parent with brown eyes possesses the non-dominant blue gene. If the child inherits the blue gene from that brown eyed parent, the child's eyes will be blue since the gene from the other parent with blue eyes will be blue. There is a condition known as heterochromia iridis where one eye is brown and one eye is blue. This condition is usually pathological on a neurogenic or inflammatory basis with the abnormality usually being in the lighter/ blue eye. Acquired heterochromia iridis that develops in an adult may suggest a melanoma of the iris in the brown eye.


What does nano mean in Spanish?

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