I heard that if both parents of a child has brown eyes, the kids can't have colored eyes.?

Question

what if both of the parents come from family with colored eyes, such as fathers, brothers and sisters.

Answer 1

This category is for Genealogy, not genetics. Genealogy is the study of family history. Your question belongs some place else.

Answer 2

It's called a recessive gene. Both my parents had blue eyes. Out of the 12 children they had,4 of us got green eyes. If you have an ancestor that had a certain color eyes, that gene is passed down through every generation and one day it will come to surface in someone's child. My oldest daughter constantly questioned her brown eyes because her father has blue eyes, and I have green. she thought her eyes should have been blue, not brown. Such is life. You take what you get and there is nothing you can do about it.

Answer 3

What do you mean by "colored eyes"? It is possible for two brown-eyed parents to have a child with eyes of a different color, such as blue or green, because brown eyes are a dominant genetic trait, and if each parent has a recessive gene for blue or green eyes, it is possible for the child to get the recessive gene from each parent and have blue or green eyes as a result.

Answer 4

Your theory is not true, but not completely untrue!!!!

Generally, the odds that a child who is born to parents that both have brown eyes, that the child will have colored eyes is almost 100 to 1 and percentage wise 2%likely to happen but it can happen. It isn't set in stone that a child who has parents with brown eyes will just never be born with colored eyes.

Brown eyes are a dominant gene over colored eyes like blue or green. So maybe wherever you heard that ..from whoever you heard it from took that notion into thinking that it just would never happen in a scenario like that, because brown eyes are dominant genes. ( Just a guess?)

Answer 5

this is genetics...if the two mom and father carry a recessive gene (blue/green/etc) then the baby has a a million in 4 hazard of having colored eyes. Brown eyes is a dominant trait so this is greater in all hazard to happen (3 out of four cases) yet colored eyes are nonetheless plausible.

Answer 6

The child can have colored eyes. Brown colored eyes are dominant which means they are more likely. But when you throw a whole bunch of options together in a bag, Green and blue are bound to come up from time to time.

Answer 7

Wrong..usually that is so if both parents have light eyes. My mother had brown eyes my father blue, they had 1 brown eyed child, one hazel and 2 blue eyes. Brown eyed parents can have children with any color eyes. My brother and his wife both have brown eyes, they have 2 darked girls and a blue eyed son.

Answer 8

Nah, you never know what you're going to get. My family has all blue eyes and brown hair. Both parents, and all my siblings. My husband's family has all hazel eyes and brown hair. I have a daughter with blond hair that no one else has, plus blue eyes. My son has brown hair and brown eyes. And yes, they both have the same set of parents.

Answer 9

not true, there is such a thing as throw backs where recessive genes from other generations do occasionally come out. the same works for hair. my sister got her blonde hair from our grandmother. I got my redbrown hair because my mom had red hair and my grandfather gave her that red hair, but my father's hair was so dark brown it was nearly black very dominant and we still got hair genes from our mother's side. my eyes are darker brown like my dad but my sister has lighter brown like our mom.

Answer 10

Both my parents have light brown eyes, I have Dark brown and my brother has light Blue. All four of my grandparents have or had Blue.

Answer 11

That's not true. I have green eyes but both of my parents have brown eyes. My great grandma had colored eyes.