will the baby's eyes come from the mother or father?

Question

Myself: Brown
My wife: Blue
Father: brown eyes
Mother: brown eyes
(Mom's side)Grandparents: both brown
(Dad's side)Grandparents: both brown

Answer 1

Both, it's a 50/50 with brown eyes usually dominate over blue. It's just a matter of which side of the coin it ends up on, moms or dads.

Answer 2

The baby's eye color is determined by genes. However, it isn't just one gene that determines eye color, so even if both parents have blue eyes, the child might end up with brown. The child's eye color will come from both the mother and the father because the genes will have to come from both of them, but the eye color might be mom's or dad's or one of the four grandparents or one of the eight great-grandparents. It's really just all up to genetics. If you really must have that blue-eyed baby, they do have doctors out there that do gene selection, giving you a higher chance of concieving a boy or girl or one with a specific eye color.

Answer 3

Yep genes, blue and brown tend to be more dominent while green is the recessive gene... same with hair too, brown, black, and blonde are dominate while red is recessive. Sometimes they don't even have the parents eyecolors, and eye colors change... mine were blue as a baby liek my dad now I have green unlike either of my parents or ANY of my reletives, its all brown or blue, no green eyes whatsoever. Ken is also right... we had to do a whole project on it in 7th grade, we had to make a fake family chart with characteristics of each member following those principals.

Answer 4

With so many brown eyed members of your family, plus with brown being dominant over blue, I would guess your baby's eyes will be brown.

Your wife's parents are both carriers of blue (light eyes) recessive genes so they passed down to your wife. If you also are a carrier, meaning someone in your family had blue eyes, you could theoretically pass that gene to your kids.

Both of my parents have brown eyes. My paternal grandfather had green eyes and my maternal grandmother had bluish eyes. Mine turned out light brown/hazel because both of my browneyed parents carried the recessive gene which passed to me.

My husband has brown eyes and both of our kids have brown eyes.

Answer 5

My mom has brown eyes, my dad blue, I have green. I have 3 siblings, all with brown eyes. My husband has brown eyes, my son has blue eyes. All my neices, nephews, and cousins all have brown eyes. Myself and my son are the only ones in my entire family that have something other than brown eyes.

Answer 6

The others are wrong. If you know your genetic history, you can figure it out. For example, if the mother has brown eyes and no history of blue eyes in the family, the child will have brown eyes even if the father has blue. Brown dominants blue (if the brown if pure -- eg, no prior family history of blue).

Answer 7

Well, it is 50/50 and depends on which color genes both parents have. The baby could end up with blue/green/brown, depends on if he/she gets 2 dominant trait genes or 1 dominant and 1 recessive...2 recessive, etc.

Answer 8

Why don't you do a Punnett square and see what your chances are? The baby inherits 50% of its traits from each parent. Brown eyes are dominant, blue are recessive.

Answer 9

I have blue eyes, and my hubby has brown. all 3 of my kids have brown eyes. I'm still hoping this next one has blue eyes.

Answer 10

There is absolutely no way of knowing! My son has my blue eyes but looks like hubby's family and my daughter has hubby's brown eyes but takes after me.
All baby's are born with blue eyes too and then they change (my daughters didn't go brown till she was nearly 1.) as they get older so there is no real way of knowing even when they are just born.

Good luck