What genes do I carry for eye color?

Granfather-blue / grandmother-green





Mother-blue





Grandfather-brown / grandmother-blue





father-green





me-brownWhat genes do I carry for eye color?
Genetically speaking, traits are dominant or recessive. Brown eye color is dominant and blue/green eye color is recessive. Green is considered genetically blue. You carry two alleles for each trait, so you can have 2 dominant alleles or 2 recessive alleles and be homozygous or 1 dominant and 1 recessive and be heterozygous. Your mother is homozygous recessive for blue eyes and your father is heterozygous. It's very unusual for your father to have green eyes considering he should carry 1 dominant allele...you would expect him to have brown. But considering there are so many alleles controlling his eye color, he could be expressing a mixture of traits from each parent. You are most likely heterozygous and carry a blue allele from your mother and a brown allele from your father and express the dominant brown from your father. If you had children with a blue-eyed homozygous person, there'd be a 1/4th chance for brown eyes and 3/4th chance for blue.





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