Did You Inherit Your Mom Or Dad's Eye Color?

[DisneyJen0504]

MOm-I have her brown eyes.

 

[Christine]

Mom = Brown (but she also carries a recessive blue)
Dad = Blue
Me = Blue

Now for my kids:
DH = Brown (but he carries a recessive blue)
Me = Blue (but I probably carry a dominant Brown)
DD = Brown (DARK Brown, almost black)
DS = Blue

 

[AllyandJack]

I'm another one who didn't inherit either color. My mother has brown eyes. My father has blue eyes. My eyes are multi-colored. They change depending on what I'm wearing. They have a dark blue ring around them, then the middle is green and then there is some brown by the pupil.

I just call them green.

DH has blue eyes, so I presume our children will have green or blue eyes since two people with recessive eye genes can't have a brown-eyed baby. Is my eye color recessive? I think so. I don't know....I can't remember that far back in my education.

 

[aprincessmom]

Mom's eyes are hazel
Dad's eyes are deep brown, almost black
Mine are blue-green

 

[MickeysMommy]

How do you figure out recessive genes and eye color of future kids?

 

[ZachnElli]

I'm a blend. My dad has blue, mom had green, I'm blue-green, but my eyes are much lighter than both of them. My brother has ocean blue eyes. My dd has grandma's green eyes though.

 

[AllyandJack]

How do you figure out recessive genes and eye color of future kids?

I don't remember the exact specifics of it, but I know brown is dominant and blue is recessive. So, two blue eyed people can't have a brown eyed baby because they both have the recessive gene. I don't know where green fits in here though. I'm thinking back to high school biology and all I'm coming up with are those squares that my teacher made us draw.

 

[AllyandJack]

Check this site out....

http://www.athro.com/evo/inherit.html

 

[DisneyPhD]

Not sure how we managed this one but

Mom: blue
Dad: blue
Brother 1: blue
Brother 2: blue
Brother 3: hazel, greenish golden mix.
Me: same as brother #3, hazel, greenish, golden mix

I actully really like my eyes, they change a lot and you have to really look at them to see what color they are.


My DH: brown, (DH has a brother with blue eyes also.)
My DD: brown
My DD: blue


(not sure what color the mail mans eyes were, but I don't think that is the case )

 

[MickeysMommy]

That's good Ally but how do you figure out mother and fathers genes blue-blue/brown-brown...?

 

[smilie]

Mom-Grey/Blue
Dad-Crystal Blue

My brother and sister got my mom's grey/blue eyes and I got my dad's bright blue eyes

 

[Keli]

Hard to tell....
Mom = blue
Dad = blue
3 of 4 grandparents = blue
Me = blue

Dh's Mom = blue
Dh's Dad = blue
Dh = blue

Surprisingly enough our dd = blue (what a shocker! lol)

 

[Parkhopper]

Neither. My Dad has cornflower blue eyes (the EXACT color of that crayon) and my Mom has green eyes. Mine are grey with a dark blue ring around them. They can look blue, or grey or green depending upon what I am wearing, but they NEVER look the same color blue or the same color green as either of my parents.

Suzi

 

[helenabear]

Mom and Dad Brown = Me brown
Then how come Me brown and Dh brown= 3 children with varying colors of green/hazel?

Hazel & green are mutations of genes. Green sometimes comes from blue and hazel usually comes from a form of brown.

But two brown eyed can have a blue eyed kid if they both carry the blue gene (brown is dominant over blue). So either way with hazel being a mutation of blue or brown colors, it's pretty easy for a brown eyed couple to have kids with hazel eyes )

Eye color genetics isn't as cut and dry as blood types or the like are