I heard many years ago that this is not possible...I am blue eyed as is my brother...yet my mother is brown eyed and my father hazel.
2007-09-23 05:22:29 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
one of my grandparents had blue eyes and now all 4 of my children do too
2007-09-23 05:32:58 · update #1
Yes.
Blue eyes are recessive, meaning that if someone has a blue-eyed and a brown eyed, the brown wins, and the person has brown eyes.
But they still carry all the genes of their ancestors in their eggs or sperm.
So a blue-eyed egg and a blue-eyed sperm got together when you were concieved.
If you to type "Mendel" into your favorite search engine, you'd probably find stuff on his experiments with flower colors where this whole thing was figured out.
I've over-simplified, but not as much as the people who told you that you were impossible.
2007-09-23 06:12:28 · answer #1 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The recessive gene theory is the correct one, my brown eyed brother and his brown eyed wife have a blue eyed son, both parents carry the recessive blue eyed gene. The reason for the hazel eyes is probably because of a blue eyed recessive gene. I grew up with brown eyes and as I got older they became more hazel...my husband has deep dark brown eyes as do all of his family members...my two boys have brown eyes, one dark brown, one kind of an amber brown and my daughter has hazel eyes.
2007-09-23 05:32:40 · answer #2 · answered by jumbos_mom 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if one of your ancestors had blue eyes and the rest had brown or hazel eyes it is possible. Blue eyes is a recessive trait so at any time that gene is passed on and it could reveal itself at any time.
2007-09-23 07:00:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
certainly if each parent carried a recessive blue eyed gene.
Then you'd expect 1/4 of children to have blue eyes, by Mendel's theory.
Actually eye colour is more complicated than that
2007-09-23 05:41:51 · answer #4 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've herd that two brown eyed people can have a blue eyed child ,but two blue eyes can not have a brown eyed child.
2007-09-23 05:39:55 · answer #5 · answered by glenda w 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Blue is recessive yet if both parents pass on the recessive gene to the child, the child will have blue eyes.
2007-09-23 05:26:01 · answer #6 · answered by Jennifer 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes its possible,if one of the grandparents has blue eyes
2007-09-23 05:26:07 · answer #7 · answered by dumplingmuffin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes its possible.
2007-09-23 05:25:20 · answer #8 · answered by runescape sucks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blue eyes can be born to any color.
2007-09-23 05:26:11 · answer #9 · answered by fuzzykitty 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, but it's a very small chance.
2007-09-23 05:28:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋