i have blue/green eyes my hubby has blue? the kids?

Question: my mom has-green dad-blue i had blue until 18 they turned blue/green my hubby-blue his parents-brown he's 1 out of 6 with blue what are the chances of blue with the kids? 2 boys so far both blue

Answer: First of all, everyone here totally screwed up their answers. Blue is NOT dominant. It is a recessive gene. The fact that your hubby has blue eyes means that he ONLY carries the gene for blue eyes. He got one gene from his mom and one from his dad, and they both HAD to pass on the blue eye gene for him to have it. IF one parent had passed on a blue eye gene but the other parent passed on a brown eye gene, then he would have brown eyes but carry a gene for blue that he could pass on. However, because his eyes are actually blue, that means that BOTH genes he got for eye color are blue. Second, same thing applies to you, too. This means that since you and your hubby both have blue eyes, neither you or your hubby carry genes for ANY other eye color. That means that 100% of all your kids WILL HAVE BLUE EYES ONLY. You have NO other genetic options here. The simple genetics is that basically, the genes for eye color are blue, green, brown, hazel. Anything else is a variation of these colors and not an independent gene color itself. Look at a box of 64 crayons. There are about 18 different blues in there: "Denim", "Cornflower", etc., but they are still blue, just a variation of blue. Eye color is the same way. The gene for blue eyes is just blue. But, the shade may vary from person to person. This is why you have blue-green eyes. It is a variation of your gene for blue eyes.

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