Can a green eyed mother and blue eyed father have a brown eyed child?

First, the answer is yes to both questions: two blue-eyed parents can produce green or brown-eyed children. Eye color is not the simple decision between the brown (or green) and blue versions of a single gene. There are many genes involved and eye color ranges from brown to hazel to green to blue to…

How do I have green eyes if my parents have blue and brown?

Because brown eyes are caused by black and yellow pigment combined, while blue eyes have blue pigment, and so you just inherited the yellow pigment genes from your mother and the blue pigment from your father, which creates green.

Can a parent with brown eyes and a parent with blue eyes have a child with blue eyes?

One parent with brown eyes and one parent with blue eyes: 50\% chance of baby with brown eyes, 50\% chance of baby with blue eyes, 0\% chance of baby with green eyes.

What color eyes will a baby have if Mom has blue eyes and Dad has green eyes?

Blue will always be recessive. If both parents have a blue allele, it is likely that the child will have blue eyes. However, if one parent has green eyes and the other blue, your child will most likely have green eyes, as green is dominant over blue.

How rare are blue and green eyes?

Part of the reason they hold our attention is because they are extremely rare. While the science is somewhat scattered, the current research suggests that only around 3-5\% of the human population has true blue green eyes. That’s pretty amazing when you consider there’s over 7 billion people on the planet.

Why is my mother’s eye color different from my father’s?

So most likely, the genotype of your mother is wrong and she, too, has one dominant brown and a recessive blue on the brown/blue gene, which results in brown eyes. You got the recessive blue from both parents, so the green-eye gene is allowed to express itself.

Can a baby have blue eyes if both parents have brown eyes?

It’s highly unlikely for a baby to have blue eyes if both the parents have brown eyes. The genotype is the gene combination for a given trait, which, in this case, is the eye color. The mother and father’s genotype will determine the eye color of the children.

Are my parents related to me if I have green eyes?

So it would appear that you were passed a green gene from your mother and a blue gene from your father. (He has to have two blue genes to have blue eyes.) The Green gene from your mother is more dominate than the blue so you have green eyes.

Is green eye color dominant or recessive?

If a trait is recessive, like blue eyes, it generally only appears when the alleles are the same ( homozygous ). 10  Brown eye color is a dominant trait and blue eye color is a recessive trait. Green eye color is a mix of both. Green is recessive to brown but dominant to blue.