Well, actually, of course it is possible, for i exist! But the only two people i'm aware of in my family that have blue eyes are my auntie (on my mum's side) and my uncle (on my father's side) - so how many generations have my blue eyes skipped? Surely its rare for me to have blue eyes from that?
2007-09-07 13:41:08 · 7 answers · asked by Libra ♎ 4 in Health ➔ Optical
My son has brown eyes, his father and I have blue-grey eyes, and this worried me in the beginning, I had studied genetics and it did not seem possible. But my sister in law who also has brown eyes and is a Head Nurse, explained that there was a recessive gene in the family for hazel eyes. You must be what we laughingly call a throwback.
2007-09-08 02:06:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anne2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well my parents and grandparents and great grandparents never had blue eyes. My auntie and uncle don't either. Everyone has green or brown eyes. My auntie's eyes where blue but turned brown over the years. So i am the only one that stayed with blue eyes.
2007-09-07 14:15:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, actually it is not that big of a deal. It has to do with combinations of genes and just like some people look like their aunt or walk like their uncle, you can inherit the same trait from the wame ancester they got it from. So these are genes your parents are carrying but are recessive. You got a combination that turned out to give you the Blue eyes that is in your ancestry somewhere that your aunt or uncle got as well from further up! Look up this article that atlks about the genetics of eye color, I thinkk that they explain it well. HAVE FUN
2007-09-08 07:15:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. Your DNA is made up of two components called alleles. Your eye color is determined by only two alleles: brown and blue. Brown is the dominant allele, so if you have one blue allele and one brown allele passed to you, you will have brown eyes. The ONLY way you can have blue eyes is if your mom and dad both give you a blue allele. So your mom and dad both must have had a blue and brown allele each, and just happened to each pass their blue to you. Now green eyes, gray eyes etc. have some sort of different makeup, but I've only had 2 years of bio so far and haven't gotten that far yet. We just brushed up on the basis of genetics =)
2007-09-07 13:58:03 · answer #4 · answered by dohnnyjepp 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My mother's mother had brown eyes, her father's were black but she turned out with blue-gray eyes. She never could understand how that happened.
2007-09-07 14:20:06 · answer #5 · answered by RoVale 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your aunt and your uncle or your parents brother and sister, so the gene did not skip a generation, it was not the dominate gene for your parents.
It could skip your parents' generation and not be dominate in your aunts or uncles.
2007-09-07 13:48:50 · answer #6 · answered by lestermount 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
any one ever tell you were adopted?..lol. j/k
it is very posable,, my mom has hazel eyes, my dad has 1 brown eye, and 1 green eye.(weird I know, and EXTREMELY RARE)
both my grand parents have hazel eyes,, I have big blue eyes.. so ur not alone.
2007-09-07 14:16:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋