My step daughter has blue eyes. My
husband has green eyes and her mother has
green eyes. No one in my husband's family
has blue eyes and my step daughter's
maternal grand mother has brown eyes. I
don't know the maternal grandfather I
think he is out of the picture. The child
has the exact same eye color as my
husband's friend and he has told me his ex
and his freind have messed around before.
I don't see any of resemblenses between my
husband and his daughter and people
comment that sometimes. She does look a
lot like her mom though. My question is
how does eye color determination work in
genetics? Is it possible to have a child
born with eye color so different from the
family? I saw an episode of house that
said it wasn't but that is only a tv show.
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erogers33
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Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 141 Location: Littleton, CO
Posted: 02-27-06 17:15pm
I know this topic is over a month old, but
I thought I would reply since nobody else
had.
Genetics works like this:
2 parents can both have brown eyes; their
offspring can have any eye color - brown,
blue, green, hazel, etc.
2 parents with light colored eyes (blue,
green) will only have offspring with light
colored eyes. They cannot have a
brown-eyed child. In your particular
case, yes, it is possible for 2 people
with green eyes to have a blue-eyed child,
and vice versa.
On another note, if 1 parent has brown
eyes and the other parent has light (blue,
green) eyes, their children can have any
eye color - light or dark.
Hope this helps....
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eyecolor
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hazel green eye and brown eye Posted: 09-06-08 14:42pm
I have brown eyes and my husband, green
hazel. Our son has one brown eye and one
green/hazel eye.
