If I have Blue eyes, and my husband has A light Yellow Hazel color eyes, what color do you think our baby would have? Can't find any predictions on line...thought I would ask here. :) THANKS!!
2007-05-17 05:32:45 · 8 answers · asked by Debbie S 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
You can't really get a scientific answer to that without giving the eye color history farther back than you and your husband. If, for instance, you are the only blue-eyed member of a family of hazels and hazel dominates your husband's family of origin also, there are much better odds baby's eyes will be hazel than not.
I'm green-eyed: mom's blue and dad's green. My ex-husband has blue eyes as do both of his parents. We have a green-eyed and a blue-eyed daughter. I have a son with a brown-eyed man. Our son has deep brown eyes. All 3 of my kids have big, gorgeous eyes, but each has a unique color.
2007-05-17 05:41:17 · answer #1 · answered by chemmie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eye genetics is very complicated and is not yet fully understood.
Although you can't predict the eye colour of your children, you can tell the probability of your child having a certain eye colour.
The highest probability in your case is that your baby will have blue or green eyes (or even the rare blue-green colour!). There is less probability of the baby having hazel eyes and even much less probability of having brown eyes (although it is a possibility).
A simple way to think of eye genetics is to put eye colours in descending order of colour intensity: dark brown, light brown, hazel, green, blue-green, deep blue, light blue.
Now the baby will have an eye colour of equal or lower intesity than the parent with the darker eye colour (hazel, in your case). The baby may also have a colour of SLIGHTLY higher intensity than the parent (brown in your case).
Linkus
2007-05-17 13:05:32 · answer #2 · answered by Linkus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That all depends on what genes your husband has. I'm guessing that your children will either have blue eyes or will have yellow/hazel. IF you husband has a blue-eye gene, then you'll likely have a 50/50 chance. If he only has hazel genes, then they'll all be hazel.
2007-05-17 12:38:23 · answer #3 · answered by hcbiochem 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may not be able to use plain old Mendelian genetics to get the odds for this one. Hazel eyes might not be due to a "hazel" allele, but could instead be due to incomplete dominance of a brown eye allele.
2007-05-17 12:41:19 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can't actually know except if some cells from the baby and DNA tested
that is because you must know which gene is dominant and can express it self in the baby phenotype.Besides you may be caring a gene that don't appear on u may be you have a gene for black eyes but it is recessive so it was not able to express itself in the phenotype
2007-05-17 12:46:18 · answer #5 · answered by nour_blue4ever 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is a 50:50 chance cannot be guessed correctly
2007-05-17 12:42:34 · answer #6 · answered by chinky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
green
2007-05-17 12:40:43 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would look really crazy and cool if it ended up having one of each....
:D
2007-05-17 12:40:39 · answer #8 · answered by life_will_be_ok 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋