If I have dark brown eyes and my husband has blue eyes, what does this mean for our child?
Hmmm there is really no way to know, but it is fun trying to figure it out. I have DARK brown eyes and my husband has green. ALLLL of his family except his dad have green eyes as well, along with my family all having green eyes. But his dad is about the only one with blue eyes. And my Brooklyn ended up with them! So there is probably no telling what color they will be. I crossed my fingers the whole pregnancy that she would get her daddy's green eyes or blue, I just didn't want her to have my boring brown eyes.
I have brown eyes and my husband has green eyes,?
The only thing it depends on is what your grandparents had. Everybody has 2 alleles. Brown is dominant over everything else, blue is dominant over green. The phenotype is the expressed gene. You know your phenotype is brown. It all depends on what your other allele is. Your husband has two green alleles. So his phenotype and genotype are green. I have brown eyes, all my 3 siblings have brown eyes, and both parents have brown eyes. One of my alleles is brown, the other is green. I have one grandparent on each side that had blue eyes. My husband has blue eyes as do all his siblings and both parents. My husband's alleles are blue/green. We know this because our oldest son has green eyes. So he received the green allele from each parent. Middle son has blue eyes. He got the blue allele from dad, and a green from me. youngest son its undetermined what his eyecolor is, it looks kinda hazel so we aren't certain what his alleles are. If your other allele is brown, then you will have 100 percent brown eyed children. If your other allele is blue then 50 percent will be brown, and 50 percent will be blue. If your other allele is green, then its 50 brown, 50 green. It all depends on what your other allele is. Your husband's mother has one brown allele and one green. For all the green eyed children, they got the green allele from her and 1 green from dad. The other children have to have brown eyes.
I have blue eyes, my husband has dark brown, my 3 kids are all blue eyed, is this rare?
No it's reasonably common. Here's why.To have blue eyed children your husband is carrying a recessive blue gene. His eyes are brown as the brown is the dominant gene. I know I am being a little simplistic but it means that you have a 50/50 chance each child of javing a blue eyed child. The odds reset for each child.If you have a brown eyed child they will carry a blue gene.If they marry another person with brown eyes the following happens.If the brown eyed person is carrying a recessive gene there will be a 25 percent chance of a blue eyed child each conception. If the brown eyed person has 2 brown eyed genes then 100 percent of offspring will have brown eyes though some will possibly carry the recessive blue gene.I know my husband who has lovely dark brown eyes carries the blue gene so if we had children we would have a 50/50chance of blue or brown eyed children.I know it's a little more complicated with green eyes but this is the simple gene situation.
Both my husband and I have brown eyes. My father had blue eyes. No one in my husband’s family has light eyes, only brown. I have a green-eyed daughter and my son has blue eyes. Can this only be from my side?
The genetics of eye color are more complicated than those Punnett squares in your sixth-grade science text book, but…Brown is dominant over blue (or green). You, presumably, have an allele (form of a gene) for blue eyes inherited from your father and a (dominant) allele for brown eyes inherited from your mother. Quite possibly one or both of your husband’s parents likewise had one allele for brown eyes and one for blue, and your husband inherited an allele for brown eyes from one parent and an allele for brown eyes from the other. All you’d need is that one solitary copy of the allele for blue, always being inherited along with an allele for brown, perhaps over several generations, until your children’s generation when, by chance, each of them inherited an allele for blue eyes from each of you. But both of you had to contribute an allele for light-colored eyes.
I have hazel eyes my husband has brown eyes what color eyes will my kids have?
Your kids will more than likely have brown eyes because brown eyes are dominant over any other color eyes. Same goes with hair color, black/brown hair is dominant over blond, red, etc.
My husband has blue eyes and I have brown eyes, what color will my baby have?
I (and all my close relatives) have blue eyes. My husband and all his ancestors as far as we can go back have brown eyes. For the longest time I kept expecting our son's eyes to turn brown, but he is now 12 months old and it doesn't look like his eyes will become anything but the blue they are, the blue that looks just like my and my dad's (my mother has a different shade of blue) eyes. Because your great-grandfather had blue eyes, there is a real chance you have that gene. To be exact, it means a 100% chance your grandmother has it, a 50% chance your mother has it, and a 25% chance you have it. IF you do have that gene, the odds of your child having blue eyes would be 50-50! If you don't have the gene, the odds would be 0.
If I have Hazel Eyes and my husband has gray/green eyes what color will our baby's eyes most likely be?
I have to point out something here. Eye color is not a simple matter of dominant/recessive. Eye color is called a polygenic trait meaning it takes more than one pair of genes to determine your eye color. It is far more complex than some are alluding to here. Your baby's eye color could be almost anything, honestly. You both have genes that interact in interesting ways. Gray eyes are a variation of blue. Green eyes are due to partial pigmentation over blue/gray base. Hazel is due to more melanin than in green eyes but not enough to fully cover the blue. See what I am saying here? it is a matter of degrees, and this is caused by a lot of genes. The same is true of skin and hair color.
Can a man with brown eyes and a woman with green eyes have kids with green eyes if the man's grandfather had green eyes?
In theory, yes.For the sake of this answer we will drastically simplify the genetics of eye color and pretend it is determined by only two alleles. We will use a capital letter for the dominant allele (B for brown) and a lower case letter for the recessive (g for green).In order for the child to have green eyes it has to inherit two recessive green eye alleles, gg, one from the man and one from the woman. Since the woman has green eyes, and green eyes are a recessive trait, we know that she has gg genotype and will pass a one g allele to the child.The man, on the other hand, is more complicated. Like the woman we know the man’s grandfather is gg and past a g allele down to all his children. Thus, the man has a parent (1) with with gX genotype (X being unknown since we don’t have information on the grandmother) and XX (both unknown) for the other parent (2).Since the man has brown eyes we know he has at least one B allele. It is possible that the man inherited parent 1’s g allele, giving the man a genotype of Bg.Since the man’s (possible) genotype is Bg and the woman’s genotype is gg, their child would definitely inherit one g from the women and possibly another g from the man. If all this happened then the child would end up with green eyes.Of course, in reality, the genetics of eye color is far more complicated then this and many other factors come into play.
Why do my brown eyes turn a lighter color in the light?
When the suns in my eyes , or i'm looking into a light my eyes turn from dark into a very light brown. I think it looks so pretty , but im curious why do some eye colors do that?
Both of my parents have green eyes, and I have brown eyes. How did this happen?
Eye color is determined by genes which come in a spectrum of dominance (the most dominant gene you poses is the trait you display) green is dominant over brown, you get one gene for each feature from each parent for a total of two both parents have one green eye color gene (thus green eyes) and one that is recessive (less dominant) you didn't get ether green gene which means you got the two recessive genes and of those two brown is ether the only one or the more dominant and so you have brown eyes despite your parents both having green eyes