I remember that one story where the kid was confused when he learned two blue eyed people can't make a brown eyed baby and he had brown eyes and his parents had blue and school taught him he was adopted
It's not just your parents' eye colors, they have dominant and recessive genes they inherited which can combine to give their children a different eye color. Look up Mendel's snowpea experiments.
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I think the reason that in blue, none of the columns (don't know what else to calls them) have it as 0%. I have two Theories
1. it's from other (or older) family genes
2. It's a mutation (genectic)
My mother has brown eyes , dad has blue. Me and my little brother have green\hazel...wtf
My moms parents had both blue eyes, she and her siblings have brown or BLUE eyes
Genetically, it is possible for two blue or green eyed parents to have a brown eyed child. Nothing is ever 0 or 100%. It is possible for two black parents to have a white kid and vise-versa.
Genetics doesn't work that way. Your genes don't just come directly from your parents; you can share your aunt's (blood related aunt) hair color, grandfather's nose, and your grandmother's eyes.
This chart is probably assuming that every parent has a dominant trait for that eye color (and that every single person in that lineage has that eye color) but in real life if ANY of your ancestors had a different eye color it is possible for you to have that eye color, hence why genetics are so complicated
My dad had brown eyes, my mother has blue eyes, my moms parents have green eyes and brown, and my dad's parents both have brown eyes, however I for some reason have eyes that like to change from green to blue and grey.
Then please, by absolutely any and all means... explain me. I don't remember my parents' eye colors off the top of my head, but mine are Blue with a Yellow ring around the pupil.
It doesnt account for hazel. This got me and my husband too. I have blue, he has brown. The babys eyes looked a bit green, according to the chart green is 0 percent. Turns out his eyes are hazel, which doesnt fall on this chart.
My eyes are a ring of green (around the pupil) which almost perfectly blends into a ring of blue... With some sort of brownish-grayish tint around the blue...
-the dad
Both our kids are blue. :(
This comment is totally deserving of downthumbs, of course.
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He's African American.
I-it seems...
Yep, I have absolutely no explanation for that
1. it's from other (or older) family genes
2. It's a mutation (genectic)
My moms parents had both blue eyes, she and her siblings have brown or BLUE eyes