Are we all born with blue eyes?

High&Low wrote: »

same colour eyes as the postman...

Damn you Pat and your black and white Cat!!

MizzLolly

I still have blue eyes!! \o/

Doc wrote: »

Both my parents have brown eyes but I have blue.

No one dominants me bitches!

You were adopted sorry they meant to tell you

thelordofcheese

Smart Bug wrote: »

johnnyrotten wrote:

Smart Bug wrote:

Yes.

No.

Maybe?

I don't know.....

junior_apollo

High&Low wrote: »

I have green eyes (they were blue when I was born).

My wife has brown eyes (no idea what they were when she was born as I didn't know her then)

Our first child has brown eyes, they were very dark brown when she was born.

Our second child has blue eyes. Very blue eyes!!!!

Shes obviosuly not telling you the whole story!... Sort it out...

Kdub wrote: »

You were adopted sorry they meant to tell you

so is your face!

kraggy

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

Because the child needs to have the blue-eye gene from both parents in order to have blue eyes. Let's say both parents are Bb, which means they have brown eyes but carry the blue-eye gene. I think you have to construct a grid thing for this this but it always goes- Child 1- BB (brown eyes), Child 2 Bb (brown eyes), Child 3 bB (brown eyes), Child 4 bb (blue eyes). Of course, doesn't always work out in that order.

Wow, that's exactly the situation with me and my siblings, me being the only one with blue eyes (youngest).

But my dad had green eyes and my mum as brown. But both could carry blue gene?

metaoblivia

My Dad has green eyes and my mom has brown eyes. Both my brother and I were born with dark brown eyes. But my brother's second ex-wife has blue eyes, and their son was born with blue eyes. He was DNA tested too, so we know he's my brother's son. I'm guessing my nephew got a recessive green eyes gene from my brother and a blue eyes gene from his mother.

kraggy wrote: »

Wow, that's exactly the situation with me and my siblings, me being the only one with blue eyes (youngest).

But my dad had green eyes and my mum as brown. But both could carry blue gene?

Nope. Yore Ma played away. I hear she does it a lot.

ShooterSF

kraggy wrote: »

Question 1. Then why do some people have different colour eyes to their siblings?

Queston 2. Why do arabs all have brown eyes? Is it cause of the dominance of brown eyes?

ShooterSF wrote: »

(OK ShooterSF even if you are mistaken the important thing is not to admit it but dig your heels in and use any argument to back it up.)

Lets answer number two first as its the easier one. Eh, Yes.

Now for question one. Women hide affairs well. QED.

High&Low wrote: »

I have green eyes (they were blue when I was born).

My wife has brown eyes (no idea what they were when she was born as I didn't know her then)

Our first child has brown eyes, they were very dark brown when she was born.

Our second child has blue eyes. Very blue eyes!!!!

Hmm At first I thought this was an obvious one. Your first child was right and the second was the result of my answer to question one posted above, however I then realised that still doesnt make sense.

So this is how it usually happens, Im not saying it did, don't get angry with me. The woman, nefariously promiscuous, has a lesbian affair with a woman (with blue eyes) on the rags who's egg slips into "our" woman.
Our woman then goes and has an affair (damn women) with a blue eyed fella whose blue eyed sperm infilitrate the borrowed egg and hurrah. Perfectly scientifically blue eyed babe.

Sorry to be the one to break it you.

Lizzykins

I was half tempted to check that my third child wasn't swapped in the hospitlal as he has brown eyes! Child one has pale blue eyes,child two dark blue and child four has green eyes! I have greeny grey eyes and hubby has grey too. I asked the GP and he said it was quite possible that we would have a brown eyed child. On checking with relatives someone way back had brown eyes.

Doc wrote: »

so is your face!

dammit i knew my boyish good looks werent natural!!

Nothingcompares

ok i haven't checked this on google and no one seems to have already stated it.

the truth is, as far as i know, babies are not born with the pigment that produces eye colour. Yes of course, eye colour is genetically controlled but the pigment takes some weeks (6 weeks?) to be produce. The eyes look blue because that's just the way the light reflects the colourless eyes. As the baby develops their eye colour pigmentation will become more and more lucid and you see the greens/blues/browns.

actually i just googled it

An infant's eye color is determined by a substance called melanin. Melanin is a dark pigment contained in the iris, the structure that controls how much light is allowed into the eye. The color of the iris is determined by the amount of melanin in the iris. Light eyes have very little pigment, whereas darker eyes have a lot. In newborns, the pigmentation process of the iris is not yet complete. Babies with darker skin are usually born with dark eyes that stay relatively dark. Iris color in lighter-skinned babies is usually a blue or bluish-gray color at birth, then change as they grow. Melanin production changes during the first year of life, usually resulting in a darker, deeper eye color.

Permanent eye color is not set until a baby is at least nine months old, so wait until your child's first birthday to determine what color they will be.

An infant's eye color is influenced by the eye color of their parents. Eye color is often studied in the field of genetics because of its inheritance patterns, but is still not fully understood.

Source: Alfred Rosenbloom, Jr. and Meredith W. Morgan, Principles and Practice of Pediatric Optometry. J.B. Lippincott Company, 0-397-50917-0, 1990.

metaoblivia

kraggy wrote: »

Wow, that's exactly the situation with me and my siblings, me being the only one with blue eyes (youngest).

But my dad had green eyes and my mum as brown. But both could carry blue gene?

My understanding from a biology course I took when I was 14, was that brown eyes are the most dominant, followed by blue eyes, with green being the least dominant. So your Dad most likely had the green gene, but your mom had the blue gene and that won.

ShooterSF

(Right time to implement the religious tactic in the face of evidence)

*Covers ears and closes eyes*
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Nothingcompares

metaoblivia wrote: »

My understanding from a biology course I took when I was 14, was that brown eyes are the most dominant, followed by blue eyes, with green being the least dominant. So your Dad most likely had the green gene, but your mom had the blue gene and that won.

your explanation doesn't make sense.

In order of dominance Brown (br) Blue (bl) Green (gr).

Her mother has to be grgr. If she was Blgr she'd have blue eyes. Blue is dominant to green. Her dad could be Brgr (have brown eyes and carry green gene). But any mixture between the parents

Brbl (brown) Brgr (brown) grBl (blue) would not yeild green eyes.

my explanation is:
1. eye colour is actually more complex then we've assumed
2. both have blue eyes or both have green eyes but ones "shade" fo blue looks green

metaoblivia

Nothingcompares wrote: »

your explanation doesn't make sense.

In order of dominance Brown (br) Blue (bl) Green (gr).

Her mother has to be grgr. If she was Blgr she'd have blue eyes. Blue is dominant to green. Her dad could be Brgr (have brown eyes and carry green gene). But any mixture between the parents

Brbl (brown) Brgr (brown) grBl (blue) would not yeild green eyes.

my explanation is:
1. eye colour is actually more complex then we've assumed
2. both have blue eyes or both have green eyes but ones "shade" fo blue looks green

She said her mother had brown eyes and her father had green eyes. So her father is grgr, and her mother may be Brbl. In which case, her mother would pass on the brown gene to the older siblings, but she ended up with the dormant blue which would override the father's grgr.

Ginny

Father has blue eyes, mother has green eyes, I have grey/green eyes, sister has blue, brother has blue...

My father has green antennae, my mother has blue, but I have brown antennae.

Explain please.

asdasd

My father has green antennae, my mother has blue, but I have brown antennae.

Explain please.

People have done this already.

He is possibly Bgr, she is Bb, and the childers can be

BB ( brown), grB(brown), Bb( brown), bb ( blue)

ShooterSF

Smart Bug wrote: »

My father has green antennae, my mother has blue, but I have brown antennae.

Explain please.

Your mother had an affair with a bug with a brown antennae.
How many times?!

ShooterSF wrote: »

Your mother had an affair with a bug with a brown antennae.
How many times?!

Nah Smart bug just came out of the wrong hole thats all :eek:

ShooterSF wrote: »

Your mother had an affair with a bug with a brown antennae.
How many times?!

All 758 of my siblings that I ate also had brown antennae. My only surviving brother has black antennae, the freaky b*stard.

Can someone explain why I have blue eyes and both my parents have brown and before anyone else says it no I’m not adopted.

Doc wrote: »

Can someone explain why I have blue eyes and both my parents have brown and before anyone else says it no I’m not adopted.

It's because you touch yourself at night.

Corruptedmorals

Doc wrote: »

Can someone explain why I have blue eyes and both my parents have brown and before anyone else says it no I’m not adopted.

See first page. Your parents are both Bb (carrying the blue eyed gene) which then united in you to give you bb (actual blue eyes). I bet you have brown-eyes siblings, or if you did they would have brown eyes.

Smart Bug wrote: »

It's because you touch yourself at night.

This seams to be the answer to a lot of my problems…

asdasd

Can someone explain why I have blue eyes and both my parents have brown and before anyone else says it no I’m not adopted.

Your parents had parents with blues eyes. So if someone with eyes of type bb ( fully blue) marries BB (fully brown) you get Bb - thats brown dominent, and bllue recessive. The eye is brown.

When a Bb marries a Bb, they can gave kids who are BB, Bb (2), and bb. There are four options. Three will be brown but two carry the recesssive blue gene, and one will be fully blue.