My daughter of 3 years has blonde hair and blue eyes. I have white skin,brown eyes and dark brown hair.My daughters father has forien coloured skin,black hair and also has brown eyes.. is this common?
2006-09-06 03:59:46 · 11 answers · asked by charlie_baby1983 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Recessive genes. Here is a great story about that.
My son -blond, green eyes. My husband Italian with all dark brown features, me-` Irish black hair, ivory skin with blue eyes. My son looks just like my Mother's brother that died in 1968, no color photos of him. His eye shape is almond, like our American Indian history.... what a cutie! A real American mutt.
My wonderful friend who is very ethnically black, with strong African features has a white daughter with very fair colored smooth straight hair, skin and pale sea foam green eyes.
Her husband actually divorced her over the child, which was best anyway, yet he is the biological father. It was genetics.
Her Paternal Grandmother (she never knew-her- died when her dad was an infant) was Scandinavian-as white as they come and the family never spoke of it, since her son was very dark like his father. Her great aunt, was shocked to see her baby girl and actually broke the 50 year code of silence that was destroying her life- her own father did not know he was bi-racial. That really was a family secret-her poor dad lived a lifetime of a "lie". Never knowing that his mom had an entirely different culture and family.
She was able to track her roots to Norway and they all met in New York a couple of summers ago for 3 days-vacation. They were thrilled to meet their american branch of the family. Her daughter looked just like her cousin. What a remarkable thing HUH?! Since then they have had christmas in Germany and plan to go to Florida together next summer.
2006-09-06 04:30:46 · answer #1 · answered by Denise W 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Blue eyed milk man? That is an old joke (sorry, I use to hear that one a lot), but the responses that state a 25% chance are correct. Both you and her father carry a dominant brown eye gene and a recessive blue eye gene. The dominant gene manifests itself in both of you (the dominant gene wins out over the recessive gene), hence the brown eyes. But you both passed recessive blue eye genes to you daughter and the two recessive genes make her eyes blue. As for the odds, each of you have a 50% chance (.5) of passing on the recessive trait and .5 X .5 makes .25 or 25%.
2006-09-06 04:39:16 · answer #2 · answered by Tony Z 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can happen. The "brown" gene is dominant so if you have one brown and one blue gene, you get brown eyes. If this is the case with the girl's father, too, the probability is 25% that the girl enherits the blue gene from both parents.
If both parents are from an ethnic group with mainly blue eyes, there's a good chance that both of you have one brown and one blue gene, so the chance of having a child with blue eyes will be close to 25%. On the other hand, if either (or both) parents is from a group with mainly brown eyes, chances are that either (or both) parent has two brown genes. In that case, the child will always get brown eyes.
2006-09-06 04:07:41 · answer #3 · answered by helene_thygesen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My ex and that i the two have brown eyes. in actuality he became into Mexican. Our daughter has blue eyes. The answerer above is fullyyt incorrect...what he gave is an eighth grade text textile e book, straightforward, dumbed down explanation. besides the fact that fairly genetics are lots deeper than that, and in actuality comprise any traits that are possessed by making use of anybody in that kinfolk for countless generations back. For me my mom had blue eyes and his dad (from Spain) had blue eyes, and with an understanding of genetics, one may well be attentive to the way we brown eyed human beings ended up with a blue eyed daughter I even have twins with my husband.....the girl have been given his blue eyes and my dark hair and the boy have been given my dark eyes and his mild hair.
2016-10-14 09:25:54 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
VERY! My sister and her husband have dark hair almost black with brown eyes and their daughter came out with blonde hair and blue eyes. My best friend and her hubby have light blonde hair and their daughter came out with brown. It is very common. And if those peole above me say its not, then wow, this all happened to the people i know??
2006-09-06 04:05:49 · answer #5 · answered by Baby Jack born 4/5/09 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blonde hair and blue eyes are both recessive genes. That means that both you and your husband must have each had at least one blue-eyed blonde-haired ancestor. The recessive genes for blonde-hair and blue eyes matched up in your child.
2006-09-06 04:06:59 · answer #6 · answered by crispy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it can happen. it's because maybe your husband has a family of blue-eyed. and maybe you guys both have the recessive allele for blue eyes then maybe your daughter inherited them from u. maybe u got brown eyes because maybe the allele for brown eyes is dominant. same as ur husband.
2006-09-06 04:12:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not common, but it can happen, it just means you both have a recessive blue-eyed gene
2006-09-06 04:05:31 · answer #8 · answered by sweet smile 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My grandaughter is half Italian-father has black hair, brown eyes, mother has dk. brown hair ,brown eyes and baby has blue eyes.
2006-09-06 04:06:04 · answer #9 · answered by Corina 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not common, but not impossible. My daughter and granddaughter have similar characteristics.
2006-09-06 04:05:29 · answer #10 · answered by wizard8100@sbcglobal.net 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋