2006-07-01 08:14:19 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Yes, the day shift supervisor of a department in the denim mill where I work has blue eyes and reddish brown skin.
The coloring is slightly different than blue eyes in Caucasians, but he has blue eyes none the less.
Eye color other than brown is usually the product of recessive genes, that is if you have on only one copy of the blue eye gene and one copy of the brown eye gene you'll have brown eyes. You need two copies of the gene to have blue eyes.
Most African Americans have some European ancestry which imparts some recessive eye color genes, occasionally someone will crop up with both copies of the recessive genes.
2006-07-02 05:12:10 · answer #1 · answered by corvis_9 5 · 12⤊ 5⤋
Yes, blue eyes is created by a recessive gene that can be inherited from black-skinned parents. At some point in family history, there would have had to been a donor (egg or sperm) with blue eyes into the family's gene pool. For example, during the slave era in the U.S.
If this mixed-race child marries a 100% black person and so on, most black features (dominant genetic trait) will appear. However, the blue-eye gene may appear if each black parent has a blue-eye gene in their coding. Look at Vanessa Williams.
2006-07-01 08:34:51 · answer #2 · answered by chance 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think so, but brown eyes are the dominant gene so if the black person were the child of a white and a black, the brown eyes would still show through unless the gene for brown eyes were missing. I knew a black man who had one brown eye and one green eye, so those things can happen, but for a black person to have blue eyes, one parent must be missing the brown eyed gene and the other parent was white with blue eyes and their parents would both have had blue eyes.
2006-07-01 08:21:21 · answer #3 · answered by fingerpicknboys 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. It depends who the father/mother is and the genes that go into the make up.
Between two black people it is unlikely. But a black baby has been known to be born to white parents several generations after the gene entered the family tree so anyhting is possible.
On the fun side a black person can get colured contact lenses and have any coloured eyes they like!
2006-07-01 08:22:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
DNA is at superb a crap shoot. the well-known public of blacks (different than greater recent immigrants) interior america of a carry a minimum of a few Caucasian DNA. So, mom and father who seem very black can produce toddlers with some Caucasian advantageous properties, and siblings with none. My very honest, blue eyed blonde brother married a woman who seems fairly interior of sight, yet, is 50:50. Their toddlers seem very interior of sight, regardless of being in user-friendly terms a million/4. One has each little thing interior of sight (epidermis, hair, and all), different than the main endearing green eyes. So, it could happen. it rather works any incorrect way as properly; many "whites" interior america of a may be shocked to discover how lots non-white DNA they convey. a lot of human beings those days are transforming into DNA tests to coach their ancestry. they commence at $40 9, and additionally you gets a incredibly precise one for approximately $2 hundred. Many surprises there nonetheless!
2016-12-08 14:42:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It's pretty rare, but I know some. The ones I know don't have the light, ice-blue shade of eyes that Scandinavians do, but they have blue eyes nonetheless. I do know a guy that has ice-blue eyes that has some African-American in him, but he's mostly white.
2006-07-01 08:27:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah .. One of my best freind is black( light SKINNED) she had blue/gray eyes by natural .. VERY RARE blacks have blue eyes. When i met her duirng my college days, I thought that she was wearing fake colored contacts.. Even she looks great with her complexion as well . She showed me that her eyes were REAL and i was soo shocked. VERY RARE!
2006-07-01 08:20:48 · answer #7 · answered by sunnya4life 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
yes if one parent has blue eyes but all babies have blue eyes when they are born anyway!
2006-07-01 08:18:55 · answer #8 · answered by womam12 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I really do not know but i would imagine it is possible but very rare.
The dominant gene would always give brown eyes but you never know.
2006-07-01 08:48:11 · answer #9 · answered by monkeyface 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-01 08:28:02 · answer #10 · answered by steven m 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋