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Blue eyes are a recessive trait, while brown eyes are dominant. If both parents are heterozygous for brown eyes, it means they both carry the recessive trait for blue eyes, and so there is a 25% chance their offspring will be blue-eyed.

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Q: How can this be possible where the couple has brown eyes and the child can have blue eyes?
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If my eyes are blue and my partners are blue what color will our child's eyes be?

Probably blue. Though brown is possible if you both carry brown as a recessive gene.


Can someone with brown eyes and one with green eyes have a blue eyed child?

It is possible for a child with a brown-eyed parent and a green-eyed parent to have blue eyes if there is the trait for blue eyes in the child's genetics. Such as a grandparent with blue eyes.


Mendelian inheritance is it possible for two brown eyed parents to have a blue eyed child?

Yes, because blue is recessive


Is it possible for a person with brown-eyed parents and no recessive blue eye gene to have a blue-eyed child if their partner has blue eyes?

Yes, the child probably inherited the blue eyes from the person with blue eyes.


Your whole family has blue eyes but his all have brown what about my child?

Your child has a 25% chance of blue, 75% chance of brown


If you have black hair and brown eyes and you carry a red and black hair gene and your partner has blue eyes and brown hair and carries the red and brown trait with them what will the child look like?

It's possible that the child will have black, brown or red hair.


Can to brown eyed people make a child with blue eyes?

Yes it i very possible i feel that it is a fifty fifty chance.


Can blond haired blue eyed people have kids with brown eyes?

Yes Of Course-- Edit --Yes, all people have 2 sets of genetics for eye color. Their actual eye color and one other which is more than likely determined by their parent's eye colors.So, if a couple where one person has blue eyes and the other has brown eyes has a child that has blue eyes that child has a 2nd gene which is likely brown, therefore their child can have brown eyes.


Can a baby have blue eyes if father has brown eyes and mother has blue eyes?

It is very possible to have a blue eye child if both parents have different eye colors. It's also possible to have kids that have different eye colors.


Is it possible for two brown eyed people to have a blue eyed child?

Yes. The genetics of eye colour are so complex that almost there can be almost any parent-child combination.


How does dominance apply to heredity?

If some gene is dominant it will always be more hereditary than a non-dominant gene. Like brown eyes, the brown eye gene is dominant so a couple with blue and brown eyes will have a child with brown eyes no matter what.


What color eyes will a baby have if the father has blue eyes and the mother has green eyes?

It is possible for the child's eyes to be any colour - blue, green, black, brown... more than likely a mixture or a aquamarine blue with a hint of green, surprisingly green is a recessive gene to brown and blue, my mom had brown eyes an my dad had green so i have brown, and my friends mother had green eyes an her father had sky blue an there child had blue eyes my friend an her other siblings had aquamarine..itsa verry good mixture !