If a Black woman and a White man have a kid what chance will the baby have of being born with hazel eyes?

Answer 1

Does either parent have hazel eyes? Brown is the dominant gene, hence more people in the world with brown eyes. Dominant genes show their effect even if there is only one copy of that gene in the pair. A dominant gene has a 50% chance of getting passed along. ( http://www.genome.gov/glossary.cfm?key=dominant )

Your Q reminded me of weird current events.
Here are 2 recent examples of mxzed race couples giving birth to twins, 1 white, 1 black. 1 in a million odds againts this happening

http://jasonspage.net/category/birth/

http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Woman+gives+birth+to+black+and+white+twins&id=95429

Answer 2

If the white man has hazel eyes AND both his mother and father have hazel eyes -- 1 in 4.
If the white man has hazel eyes and only one of his parents does, 1 in 8.
If the white man has hazel eyes and neither of his parents do, 1 in 16.

Brown eyes are a dominant trait, hazel eyes recessive.

Answer 3

It all depends on the mixture of genes in the both the parents. If the mother is very dark-skinned and dark-eyed, she is less likely to have any blue-eyed genes to contribute to this baby, so the baby is more likely to turn out brown eyed no matter what the genes of the father. If the father is very fair and blue-eyed, and the mother has comparatively light skin, then the baby is more likely to have hazel eyes. It should be kept in mind that various ethnic groups among black Africans in subsaharan Africa have variations in their skin and eye color, so that all blue-eye light-skinned genes do not come from Europe; there are some in Africans. But the outcome in any one baby is impossible to predict with any certainty, it's all just a matter of probability and chance. Have you heard about the cases of twins where one twin is very dark and one is very light? Check out the following links.

Answer 4

Eye color is determined by the most dominate genes from the parents, (such as hair color). It does'nt matter if the person is Black (Hazel eyes) or White (Hazel eyes). It depends on which parent has the more dominate gene, (in other words:) "Which parent has the most people in it's family with Hazel colored eyes?

Answer 5

I dont know the chances but i do know that dark eyes are more dominating than hazel. So if there is dark eyes on one of the parents then chances are better that the child will have dark eyes.

Answer 6

depends on if hazel eyes run in the family or whether or not hazel eyes are a dominate gene.

If both parents have brown or dark brown eyes, more than likely the baby will have brown eyes.

if one parent has blue and the other parent has brown eyes more than likely the baby will have brown eyes since blue is a recessive gene

Answer 7

Mens genes are usually dominant in this area so if he has hazel eyes...but remember that the genes can skip generations. ie. my ex and I both have hazel eyes, son #1 has hazel eyes. Son #2 has blue eyes. Both grandfathers on both sides have blue eyes.

Answer 8

50:50. It all depends on if one has hazel eyes. it would still be the same, only the baby's skin color would be a sort of dark creamish color. I think it's cute!

Answer 9

If the "black" woman is of mixed descent at all - i.e. not of "pure" African ancestry, then it's more probable. The term "black" is used to cover so many varying degrees of skin color and ethnicity.

Answer 10

Highly likely as brown is the dominant colour. Most people who have a relationship such as this, the darker colour prevails.