A woman with hazel green eyes has a child with a man with brown eyes. What color eyes would the child have?

Question

I have hazel eyes (a mix of brown and green, but mostly green). If I had a child with a brown-eyed man, what color would our child's eyes be?

My father's eyes are greenish-blueish hazel, and my mother's eyes are blue. One of my sisters has greenish-blueish hazel eyes, two of my brothers have blue eyes, and my other 3 siblings have hazel brown, hazel blue, and hazel green eyes.

Answer 1

It depends on whether yours are recessive or dominant alleles. My guess is brown since brown is usually dominant. The brown in your hazel could also contribute.

Answer 2

Well, you can't tell just by the eye colors of the parents. It's all based on genetics. Eyes and hair are based on a number of chromosomes. For instance (This is not 100% accurate, it is only an example), I have red hair. If red hair requires all recessive genes, then that means that I have all recessive genes. My parents did not pass on any dominant genes to me. My brother may have black hair, and gotten all the dominant genes. It's possible. It's scientifically possible for two white people to have a black kid, or for two black parents to have a white kid, although the chance is something like 1 in 100 trillion. It's still possible.

The answer, then, is that nobody can know for sure what color the eyes will be until the child is born. However, probability says that the eyes will most likely be brown. Again, though, it's impossible to tell for sure.

Answer 3

I have hazel, my husband had brown. We had 3 kids. First one blue eyes, second one hazel, but they turn color sometime to blueish green, third brown just like her Dad.

Answer 4

I learned this in high school biology...but that was over 20 years ago. I think the child will most likely have brown eyes. If yours were blue....I'd say the child's eyes would be hazel.

Answer 5

They could turn out any color. Your kid's eyes will more likely be brown because of the parent's eyes being that color, that gene is dominant. However, a recessive gene could appear giving, say, blue eyes.

Answer 6

Well, I have hazel eye's, my wife has hazel eye's our 1st daughter eyes are brown and 2nd childs eyes are deep blue, now my mom has brown eyes and my dad has blue eyes, so has more heritary then just you and the dad.

Answer 7

I believe there's more than one gene involved in eye color. But on a hunch brown because more dominant.

Answer 8

Chances are your child's eyes would be brown, that's a dominant eye color. It also depends on your parents' and his parents' eye color.

Answer 9

depends on wheather the one who has the green eyes has a recessive gene for brown eyes

Answer 10

There is always a dominant gene that predicts this. It has very little to do with the combination of the two.