eyes

[rugeleyboy]

is it true that 2 blue's cant make a brown??

ie....if you and your partner have blue eyes, your child will NOT have brown

[Loosehead]

No not true, Brown is dominant but can be surplanted by blue when the genetic combination is right. The brown gene is still there in a blue eyed person. Depending on the genetic pairing at conception the brown eyed gene can come through from previous generations.

[ummmm]

I wanted to know this. My sister is adamant that two blue eyed people cannot produce a brown eyed child. She studied human biology at uni. But my mother and father in law are both blue eyed. They have a blue eyed son, a daughter with very dark brown eyes, a daughter with light brown eyes and a daughter with green eyes. And I don't think she was playing away!!

[Goodsoulette]

basicly you need a strong qac2 gene to have brown eyes, so it is not often that blue eyed parents will have brown eyed children, although not common it does happen. It is far more likely that brown eyed parents would have blue eyed children/

[noxlumos]

Yeah two blue eyed people can have a brown eyed child, although it's unusual. My wife and I both have blue eyes and our daughter has very dark brown/black eyes.

[dot.hawkes]

My grandson has one blue eye and one brown eye and his Dad has blue eyes and his mum very dark brown eyes. Not sure if that means anything at all.

[unruliejulie]

My Mum had brown eyes, my dads were blue/grey. They had 3 kids, one with blue eyes, one with brown eyes and mine are green! Bit of a mix but i would have thought the answer to your question ruge, was that it can happen.Things do skip generations.

[funkymoped]

i was under the impretion brown would always be dominant, but my niece has sparkling blue eyes.
her moms are blue, her dads are avery dark brown.

not a true answer, just chippin in...

[alijangra]

We all have 46 chromosomes. 23 maternal and 23 paternal. Chromosomes are passed on through the generations and therefore you can inherit characteristics from grandparents and great grandparents. It all depends on which chromosomes you inherit from your parents. Thats the extremely simplified version.

[ummmm]

I've got light blue eyes. My three kids (two different fathers) have exactly the same as me. Is it pot luck???

[spudqueen]

My friend and her husband both have blue eyes yet both their children have brown eyes.

[alijangra]

Yup it is pot luck because mother and father have no control over which 23 of their 46 chromosomes they pass on to their child. Its a pick-and-mix!!