Eye colour?

Question

Right, just wondering anyone with children. If you and your partner have different colour eyes (one of you has brown and the other blue) what colour were your childrens eyes? I've got the dark eyes- greeny brown, and my fella's are blue. I've heard that dark is the dominant colour so was just curious if it's true x

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Brown is dominant but that is not saying your child will have brown eyes. Dominant just means it has the highest probability. Your child could have green or blue or hazel eyes. He or she could be born with blue eyes and they could change to brown by 9 months too. You just never know!

Answer 3

Eye colour is more complicated than just dominant and recessive and it's almost impossible to predict what colour your childs eyes will be. My husband has grey eyes, and I have hazel (green/brown) - one of our children has blue eyes, and the other's are grey. As it is generally thought that brown is the dominant gene, I expected at least one of them to have brown or hazel eyes and neither did - and since I was there at the birth, I know they are mine!

Answer 4

Children look like their parents, but not exactly.

Children inherit characteristics from their parents.

Individuals have an appearance (say brown eye color). Individuals also have genes. Each individual carries two copies of each of their genes, one from each parent. A gene often comes in two flavors (such as a gene for eye color that makes eyes brown or blue). An individual can thus have two copies of the gene with the same flavor (brown-brown), or two copies of different flavors (brown-blue). Human eye color is controlled by at least three genes, though we only understand two of them well.

Let's pretend that two genes (with two flavors each) explain the inheritance of human eye color (though we know that the situation is more complex than this). These two genes are a brown-blue gene and a green-blue gene. We can ask what children different combinations of parents would produce. For example, what happens when blue eyed and brown eyed parents have children?

Note that this two gene model does not explain most human eye color inheritance. We know that there are black eyes, grey eyes, hazel eyes, and differing shades of brown, blue, and green eyes that are not explained by these two genes. Human eye color inheritance is a complicated polygenic system than we are pretending in this simplified two gene example.

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Answer 5

I don't know about all of that. I have hazel brownish green and my boyfriend has dark brown and we have four kids and only one came out with the colour eyes and the rest have lite brown to dark brown eyes but what is crazy is his mother has hazel brown eyes and he don't. And in my family my grandmother and grandfather don't have colour eyes but my mother and my ante dose and then out of their kids only I have the colour eyes!

Answer 6

It depends if your partner has the recessive allele of brown eyes. If he does, there is a 50:50 chance of Blue:Brown eyes. If both his parents have brown eyes, it is less likeley he has the recessive allele. Blue eyes are always recessive I think, so dark eyes are more likely.

Answer 7

hi there. i've wondered about this myself. i have hazel colored eyes. they look green when i wear green and brown when i wear brown...go figure. my daughter's eyes are rich brown and my son's eyes are mostly light green. my wife has blue eyes. her daughter has greenish/blue eyes like her dad but a lot bluer and her son has very blue eyes, bluer than she has. so as far as i can tell none of the kids have eye colors exactly the same as we have. i suspect there are genes further up the family tree that have come to the fore and making their presense felt.

by the way, i have my dad's eyes. my mom has her dad's eyes. i throw this in just to confuse the issue. :) her's are blue and mine are hazel. i really think it's a game of chance...

Answer 8

It depends.
Your kids could have your mothers eyes(dna) its all about family history.
Every now and again a chinese kid has blonde hair.
Why.
There is some white dna in there from a grand parent.
Some black people have a kid with european features and eye colour even though they are both black.
Its because a great grand parent was white.
Common in the usa and africa.
Check out your family history.
I have hazel eyes,my ex has blue eyes and my kid has my eyes.

Answer 9

how about this for confusion, my mum has blue eyes my dad has brown all the children have blue eyes....
me and my daughters father both have blue eyes, my daughter has brown!! the only thing i can think is she has my dads eyes as we both carried the brown gene??
i think its near impossible to predict what colour eyes your children will have, it just depends on the genes you both carry an which sperm fertilises which egg!

Answer 10

hi there, my mum had dark brown and my dad had blue. both my brother and me have blue eyes. Remember though all new borns have blue eyes for the first few days.

Answer 11

Doesn't have to be so, your man could have a dominant brown gene and a non dominant blue gene, which makes his eyes brown, but should your baby get his blue gene, his or her eyes could be blue or green.