can 2 brown eyed parents have a blue eyed child?

Answer 1

Absolutely! Odd as it sounds, it’s much more common for brown-eyed parents to have blue-eyed children than for blue-eyed parents to have brown-eyed children.

That’s because brown eyes are dominant, and the eye color likely will have already shown up in a parent if the trait is in the gene pool. So absent the dominant brown-eyed gene, blue-eyed parents are likely to just keep on producing blue-eyed children.

However, blue-eyed parents can have brown-eyed children, although genetic processes for that possibility aren’t at this time well understood.

But why do blue eyes show up in children of brown-eyed people? This is because genes for blue eyes are “lurkers.” These recessive genes stay in the background until a certain combination of genetic material occurs—i.e., a contribution of a recessive blue-eyed gene from each brown-eyed parent.

Thus, even though genes producing brown eyes are dominant, it’s more common for brown-eyed parents to have blue-eyed children than for blue-eyed parents to have brown-eyed children.

Answer 2

Blue eyes are recessive to dominant brown, if both parents are heterocigote for the gene, then there's a 25% chance that the kid will have brown eyes, if this is not the case, the chance is 0%.

Answer 3

It depends on if the blue-eye gene or brown-eye gene is dominate. If the blue-eye gene is in both parents, it's possible that a child may get one of each blue-eye gene. Chances are like 25% if the blue-eye gene is recessive (means that if one gene from parent is brown, brown will dominate any blue-eye genes). I hope this helps.

Answer 4

Yes, if at least one of the parents has a recessive gene for blue eyes

Answer 5

Check out the eye-color calculator at

http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html

You'll need to enter you and your mate's parents' eye colors as well as your own. Have fun!

Answer 6

yes. A funny but true story in my state: A month ago a white woman gave birth to a set of twins. One was black, one was white. Her husband was black.

Answer 7

Yes! Through recessive genes, it is possible. Not likely, but it is possible.

Answer 8

Yes.

Answer 9

Try this "eye color calculator"

http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html

It's interesting even if you don't know exactly what you're doing...

Answer 10

It all depends on the baby's' gene that he/she inherited.