can a brown eyed hispanic father and a blue eyed caucasion mother have a blue eyed child?

Question

Hispanic Fathers family has brown eyes only.

Answer 1

Yes for sure, two brown eyed parents can have a blue eyed child but the blue eye gene is a reccesive one so odds are it won't happen.

Answer 2

Actually, this is a good question. If a blue eyed gene is paired with a brown eyed gene, the brown "wins", because the blue gene is recessive. If the father has only brown genes, then perhaps it is true that the child will always have brown eyes.

People from a northern european heritage often have brown eyes, but carry the blue eyed gene, so blue eyes pop up all the time, even if both parents have brown eyes. This might not be true for hispanic populations, though.

Answer 3

Yes, but only if the brown eyed person carries the recessive blue eyed gene. It goes like this....say B represents the brown eyed gene and b represents the blue eyed gene. A brown eyed person that carries the recessive blue eyed gene would be represented thus Bb since brown is dominant they would have brown eyes.Also a brown eyed person can have only the brown gene like this BB. A blue eyed person has to have 2 blue eye genes like this bb in order for their eyes to be blue. So if you have blue eyes and the father has brown eyes with the recessive gene then it is possible to have blue eyed children. However if he doesnt have the recessive gene (BB) then no you cant have blue eyed children but the children will carry the recessive blue eyed trait from the mother.

Answer 4

The odds of a blue-eyed child would be 1 in 4.

Answer 5

There is a 25% chance that they could have a blue-eyed child if the father has both the brown-eyed and blue-eyed gene.

Answer 6

Yes it is possible. But only if the brown eyed father had a blue eye recessive trait, which would mean someone in his family would have to have passed it on to him. So if you say that the father does not have blue eyes in his family history, then no, that is not possible.

Answer 7

If the Hispanic Father had a recessive trait, in this case, blue eyes, then in 50% chance, the child could have blue eyes... the other 50%, all brown.. Bb, Bb, bb,bb. However, if father did not have any trait of blue eyes, no chance of a child having a blue eyes... darker color is a dominant trait.

Answer 8

Yes ... a geneticist could tell you the exact odds and I'd just be guessing @ 1 to 3 odds for a Blue Eyed baby but I'm close.

Answer 9

Yes ... a one in two chance if the father is heterozygous for the eye color, using an Mendelian genetic square ... brown is the dominant allele and blue is the recessive allele. If the father is homozygous dominant, then there is no chance for blue eyes. It all comes down to genetic mapping.

Answer 10

Yes. My dad is hispanic with black hair and brown eyes, my mother has dark brown hair and blue eyes, and I have blonde hair and green eyes.

So pretty much anything is possible, and genes in your family and show up many generations later.