ive got hazel eyes my partner has got a very light blue eyes our son has browny/green whats the poss of this 1

Question

what is the possibility of this one im having now having blue eyes like his dad?
who or what determines eye colour?

Answer 1

brown is dominant so if you have brown anywhere in your family history, it'll pop up. Both my husband and I have brown eyes (mine are light brown, his are dark brown) and dark brown hair and our daughter has dark brown eyes and very dark brown hair and our son has the browny/green eyes and sandy brown hair. Recessive genes show up from time to time too! ;)

Answer 2

If I remember high school biology correctly (and even now, this may offer some help but I think genetics is far more complicated than this), brown eyes are dominant and blue (or green) eyes are recessive. If your eyes are hazel, then they contain the brown eye pigment and are therefore dominant. So your children have a one-in-four chance of having blue eyes like your husband. I can't remember why the percentages work out the way they do, but those are the odds anyway.

Answer 3

Genetics is a tricky thing. Generally speaking, "dark" colours are stronger than "light" colours. In the eye-colour spectrum, top is darkest brown, then light brown, amber, hazel, green, blue with its various shades from violet to azure also graded accordingly. Bottom of the spectrum is grey.
All this means basically is that the chances of having blue eyes like Dad are slim but not impossible.
The more children you have, the higher the possibility of one of the youngest inheriting blue eyes. But it is still just a possibility.
As genes like to skip a generation, you are more likely to have a grandchild with blue eyes, especially if either of your children marry a blue-eyed partner.
Also relevant is your own ancestry. Did any parent have blue eyes? Grandparents, aunts, uncles? If so, the gene for blue will be stronger.
Add to this calculation the same for your partner. How many of his ancestors did NOT have blue eyes? This will lessen the chances.
In my case, my maternal grandmother had blue eyes, but her husband had brown. She had four daughters, all brown-eyed. Three of those daughters married blue-eyed men, my Mum included.
Mum produced two brown-eyed daughters. Her younger sister produced a green-eyed son: his wife has brown eyes, but their daughter has blue eyes! And my eldest Aunt produced 2 blue-eyed sons and a blue-eyed daughter!
As I said, genetics is tricky and eye colours are influenced by ancestors of both partners going way, way back!
If your partner has had a family background of about 90% blue eyed members, and yours is about 50% then chances for blue reappearing are high, somewhere along the line. Blue will win out eventually despite being subdued at present, if you see what I mean.
But if your partner's family tree had more mixed colours, the chances become less, right?
Hope this helps!
All eye colours are beautiful though, aren't they?

Answer 4

Alleles(traits) determine this. You and your partners traits go something like this. You Bb (brown or green) him bb (blue). The little b's are recessive, the big are dominant. Your husband will give a blue eye trait (or little b) every time. You will give a little B half the time, and a big b half the time. Your child has a 50% chance of having blue eyes. Here's the combinations. Bb, bB, bb, bb. Two little b's make blue. Even if you have brown eyes, you will give the small b (blue eye trait, half the time) if your parents gave you Bb. IF you had brown, and your parents gave you BB, your children will have brown every time because the B is dominant over your husbands b. Hope this makes sense.

Answer 5

Here's the deal. Each person get two sets of genes from their mom and dad. So for example you could have gotten a hazel eye gene from mom and a brown eyed gene from dad. Even if mom or dad didn't have these color of eyes they could still be carrying a recessive gene from the family line and passed it on to you. The same can be said for your husband and the genes he has gotten from his parents. (I'm using the colors hazel and brown as an example) So, lets say your husband got 2 blue eyed genes (one from mom and one from dad) and you got the hazel and brown genes, the chances of your next baby having blue eyes would be 2 out of 4 or 50%. If one of your genes are also blue eyed then the chances would be 3 out of 4 or 75%. Get it?

Answer 6

As has been said, brown is dominant
ALSO
hazel means there's brown in the genetics there
Sounds like a normal genetic result.
The brown/green is one of the less likely results, but quite possible.

Answer 7

my mum has green eyes my dad has brown eyes my two sisters have brown eyes and i have light blue eyes every one always joked i was the milkman's!

Answer 8

If you go to the internet, you can look for genetic information on eye color dominance, like this
http://www.genetree.com/resource/eyeColorCalculator.php
depending on which colors are recessive (requiring two genes to express the color) there may be no chance.