Question by Kailee: what is the chance I have green eyes?
I have green eyes. Both of my parents have brown eyes. My dads dad has brown eyes and my dads mom has green eyes (I’ve been told mine look exactly like hers). My moms mom has hazel eyes and my moms dad has brown eyes. What was the chance I Have green eyes? Obviously I have green eyes but I would imagiine the fact that neither of my parents have green eyes makes green eyes pretty rare. This is simply something I’ve always wondered and I appreciate the help.
Best answer:
Answer by Lindsey
well green eyes are a recessive trait so you have to have two green alleles for a person to have green eyes (the same goes for blue)
where as brown eyes are dominant so they only need one allele for brown eyes, which means they could have one for brown then the recessive green one, but you will only see brown eyes on them
this is a little bit of genetics so sorry if you don’t get it
so since we know green eyes are recessive, and you have green eyes then you have two green eyed alleles. and by rules of genetics one came from your mom and one from your dad
this means that even though they show brown eyes (because that is dominant) they also had to have carried the allele for green eyes
now by setting up a punnett square you can prove that any children your parents have will have a 25% chance of having green eyes
so lucky you!! there was a 1/4 chance you’d get green eyes and you got them
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