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One Parent Has Blue Eyes One Has Brown What Will Most Likely Be The Babies Eye Color?

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    The blue eyed parent can only pass on the gene for blue as he/she is pure breeding for blue eyes.     If this blue eyed parent had a child with a brown eyed PURE BREEDING parent ,then  All the children would be brown eyed (heterozygotes) as they could only be Bb  and the B (brown) always dominates.    ///////BUT if the blue eyed parent=bb   had a child with a brown eyed NOT pure breeding=Bb then on average 50 per cent of their progeny would be brown eyed=Bb and 50 per cent would be blue eyed =bb.   It all depends on the genotype of the parents.
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    Aileeny 

    answered 9 months ago

    Only true if the brown eyed parents recessive gene is blue. If the recessive gene of the brown eyed parent is something other than blue (for example green) then the offspring would have a 50% chance of having green eyes and 0% chance of blue eyes.
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    Robin108

    Robin108

    commented 9 months ago

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      Guest 

      answered 9 months ago

      This is not neccessarily true. It depends on the brown eyed parents genotype, i e ===is he/she a pure breeding brown eyes===BB or non purebreeding Bb as this determines the chances of the offspring s eye colour.
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      Aileeny

      Aileeny

      commented 9 months ago

        Brown is a dominate color so the baby will probably have brown eyes, but if the brown eyed parent has blue eyed people in there family the baby could get the blue eyes
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        Tigger9 

        answered 3 months ago

           
           

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