Two questions about eyes/genetics...?

Question

1.) I was wondering what my eye color was. I get a lot of different answers and I just want to see what everyone says. It's pretty much opinion. I have a major close up of my eyes, but if you don't look that close they pretty much look brown.
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2.) I was wondering...if someone with my eye color (my mom has blue eyes, and my dad has dark brown eyes) and someone with blue eyes (I'm guessing that at least one of their parents has blue eyes) has kids what eye color would the kid have most likely?

Answer 1

I'd describe them as hazel- as for the genetics question, you're likely to have children with brown/hazel eyes, but the children could definetely end up having blue eyes (about a 50% chance) because you carry the recessive blue allel (not sure how to spell it- basically means that because one of your parents have blue eyes, this characteristic could be passed on to your kids!). So yeah, its a 50/50 chance either way. Hope that helps!

Answer 2

It looks like you have a touch of astigmatism there. Your eye color is almost like mine and many people say I have hazel eyes. On the plus side my eye color tends to change with whatever shirt I wear. People have told me that I have green eyes, and some have gone as far as to say that I have blue eyes. They are HAZEL! I don't understand your second question, but I will give it a go. Brown eyes or dominant over blue eyes. So if you follow the square by a certain scientist one in for children would have blue eyes if one of the parents of the brown eyed parent had blue eyes.

Answer 3

ur eyes look brown
u have to look at ur grandparents as well on ur dad's side and maybe even great grandparents
ur dad may have a recessive blue eye trait or he may have an all brown trait
if someone with brown eyes with a recessive blue (Bb) has a child with a person with blue eyes (bb) then the child will either have a 50/50 chance of having blue eyes, the child will either be a Bb (brown) or a bb (blue), if the father has no recessive blue trait (BB) then the child will have have brown eyes but would have the recessive blue trait (Bb)

Answer 4

It's probably fairly close to 50/50 odds between blue and brown(ish). If you look at a genetics book, they tell you how to do a quick-and-dirty chart to figure out probabilities for certain traits. If the right combo of genetics is at play, it's possible for two brown-eyed people to have a blue-eyed (or other light color) baby!

Answer 5

My father has blue eyes and my mother's are blue-gray. I believe that both colors are recessive traits. As it turned out, one child got the blue eyes and the other got the blue-gray. The interesting thing is that my mother's mother had brown eyes and her father's were almost black. How in the world did they produce a child with blue-gray eyes?

Answer 6

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Answer 7

You have cool looking eyes. Blue is a recessive gene. Since your mom had blue eyes, she must have had all blue eye genes. So, you should have half of here genes. I believe that since he has all blue, and you have half, your kids would have a 50% chance of getting your blue recessive genes from your mom, and a 50% chance of combining his blue eye genes with your father's darker eye genes - giving them darker eyes probably close to your own.

Answer 8

They are beautiful! I think Hazel! My niece's eyes are the same, she's so pretty!