If a brown-eyed woman, and a blue-eyed man have a baby, ........?

Question

Is that child pre-dispositioned to carry the dominant (brown) gene and have brown eyes? Or is it possible for the child to inherit the recessive (blue) gene and have blue eyes?

Answer 1

Of course. But only if the brown eyed parent carries a recessive blue gene.

Answer 2

It depends on if the brown eyed parent has a recessive blue-eyed gene. If this is the case than there is a 50/50 chance of the child having blue eyes (or green or hazel). But, if the brown eyed parent has only brown eyed genes than the child will have brown eyes.

Answer 3

There are actually many possibilities depending on differnent factors. One of my parents had brown eyes, the other blue. Only one of my siblings has brown eyes & the rest of us all have a brown-green hazel. None of us has blue eyes. However, in
another family with the same combination, 2 children had blue eyes & 1 had brown.
So, the child is definitely NOT pre-dispositioned to have brown eyes (though that could be a possibility), and it IS possible for a child of such a union to have blue eyes.

Answer 4

Depends who has the dominant gene or if both parents carry the recessive gene for either brown or blue eyes

Answer 5

There is no dominant eye color gene. Multiple genes determine eye color. A blue-eyed man and brown-eyed woman can have a green eyed baby. Also, two brown eyed people can have a blue eyed child, and vice versa.

Answer 6

I have 3 brothers and 3 sisters, my mother has brown eyes and my father had blue eyes. Only me and one brother have blue eyes, the rest have brown eyes. I'm guessing that my mother carried the recessive blue eye gene or else we all would have brown eyes.

Answer 7

its possible that the child will have blue eyes if the dominant gene carrier has the blue eyed gene. but most likely theres not gonna be blue eyes

Answer 8

If the mother already has the recessive blue gene (with a dominant brown; hence her brown eyes), then it is entirely possible (50% cance actually) that a chiold will have the recessive blue gene; and since the father can only give the recessive blue, the kid will then have blue eyes. However, if the mother has two brown eye genes, then the child can only have one dominant brown and one recessive (from the father) blue gene, and will thus have brown eyes.

Answer 9

Yes and Yes. Anything in any gene is possible. My brother has dark hair and blue eyes. His wife has dark hair and brown eyes. Their children are both blond and blue eyed. but they look dead on my brother. there's quite a bit of blond hair in our family, even though my brother is not one of them.

Answer 10

Brown...