Can someone with hazel eyes and someone with blue eyes have a baby with brown eyes?

Can two parents with blue eyes have a child with brown eyes? Yes, blue-eyed parents can definitely have a child with brown eyes. Or green or hazel eyes for that matter. If you stayed awake during high school biology, you might find this answer surprising.

Can two people with blue eyes make a child with brown eyes?

Eye color is not an example of a simple genetic trait, and blue eyes are not determined by a recessive allele at one gene. Instead, eye color is determined by variation at several different genes and the interactions between them, and this makes it possible for two blue-eyed parents to have brown-eyed children.

Can parents with blue eyes have a child with brown eyes?

Because the two genes depend on each other, it is possible for someone to actually be a carrier of a dominant trait like brown eyes. And if two blue eyed parents are carriers, then they can have a brown eyed child.

Are hazel eyes a mix of blue and brown?

The defining feature of hazel eyes is their mix of colors. All hazel eyes will have some combination of brown/gold and green coloring, sometimes with flecks of blue as well. This is why hazel eyes appear different than brown, green, or blue eyes, which are a solid color.

Can a parent with hazel eyes and a parent with blue eyes have a child with brown eyes?

Most of us were taught in high school science class that we inherit our eye color from our parents, and that brown eye color is dominant and blue is recessive. That would mean that two parents with blue eyes cannot have a child with brown eyes because neither parent carries the dominant form of the gene for brown eyes.

Is hazel the rarest eye color?

Hazel eyes are not the rarest eye color, however, with grey eyes, violet eyes, red eyes and heterochromia (two different colored eyes) being even more uncommon. Many people wish to have hazel eyes because they see them as more interesting than other colored eyes and so hazel contact lenses are quite popular.

Is hazel eyes dominant over blue eyes?

Each human has two genes for eye color – one Brown/Blue and one Green/Hazel. Brown is dominant over all other alleles. Green and hazel have incomplete dominance. The heterozygous allele combination Gg produces hazel eyes….