Eye colour is more complex than that. I spoke to a genetics expert and he told me blue eyed parent can have a brown eyed baby. It is extremely rare, so rare that they would normally question paternity first. My kids have 2 blue eyed parents and they are Brown, blue, green, brown, blue. We were confused by the "high school science", but it hsppens.
It is possible for two blue eyed parents to have a brown eyed child. Those are the recessive genes. My Mom has brown, my Dad has blue and I have green. We have done the Ancestry in years past and we all match up. Eye color is complex. In this story it worked out to be true, but I would not tell anyone it is impossible.
you are 100% right about the blued eyed parents having brown eyed kids, but not the recessive part. recessive genes hide on brown, blue is recessive, brown doesn't hide.. highschool genetics is really simplistic. i have blue eyes my husband has blue eyes our kids are dark brown, blue, green, light brown, brightest blue to ever blue. when we asked a genetics expert he said it is definately possible, though incredibly rare.. They are 100% my husbands kids and we live in a country where there are no nursuries in hospitals as the babies room in with mum. my babies never left our sight.
Your mom is a Bb and your dad is a bb. That combination can have brown or blue eyed children,but that’s not the discussion we’re having. We’re talking about two bbs haveing a child with brown eyes,which MUSThave a B gene which neither of those parents can contribute.
My dad has brown hair and hazel eyes. My mom has dark brown hair and brown eyes. My oldest sister has hair/eye coloring just like my mom. My younger sister has the same coloring as my dad. I have blonde hair that turned light brown at puberty and blue eyes. My younger sister growing up tortured me with - you’re the milk man’s daughter. When she had a daughter she was my spitting image so I tortured her with the milk man’s daughter…. (I look like both my parents…)
I don’t think the eye color is that cut and dry. Brown is supposed to be dominant, but I have dark brown eyes and my parents had grey eyes and hazel/green eyes. Two of my sisters had the hazel colors, and one was very blue. If brown is dominant, then one of my parents would have to have brown eyes. I need to add I have my dad’s dimple and eye shape etc, so I don’t think there was anything else going on. One of my aunts had brown eyes, so maybe genetics is more complicated.
My brother/sisters and I have parents with brown eyes. My sister has green eyes, another sister and I have blue eyes, one brother has blues eyes and one brother brown eyes. 100% we are all brothers and sisters and our mum and dad ARE our mum and dad. PROVEN FACTS. Also it's NOT uncommon for 2 blue eyed parents to have a brown eyed child, 25% chance if the parents have the third Gene that can determine eye colour - HERC2. So people, please do not think your folks are not your folks, if you have a different eye colour.
One of my parents had blue eyes, the other had grey eyes. Three of us had brown eyes, one with green, the other had grey. Not a blue eyed child in the bunch. Mine tend towards a light golden is brown with hazel tones. Not a blue eyed child in the bunch. My DNA matches my nieces and nephews/ great nephews very closely. We also match cousins on both sides. The brown eyes came from grandparents on one side, the grey was passed down from a great grandmother. The green came from our paternal side.
@@lroach5238 That is just great, yes we are all products of our ancesters. 25% of the world population do not have the same eye colour as their parents.
My close friends have 10 children. Both were blue eyed. Baby # 9 came with brown eyes. Baby #10 again with blue like the others. So, yes, two blue eyes can have a brown eyed baby- takes after the extended family.
My oldest sister and her daughters' father have blue eyes and both my nieces have green eyes. One has red roots and a pale golden skin tone, but the other has ash blond hair and an olive complection. The second daughter has a purple edge around the green while her sister doesn't. My other sister and her husband have brown eyes; Their son has a brown eye and a blue eye, and he is also blond where the other siblings have dark hair and olive skin as adults.
This happened to me, except my blue eyed parents convinced my brown eyed self that the text book was wrong. Small town, poor education system, the textbooks old, and out of date, it's not right said my mom. I was 35 when I did a 23 and me.... My bio dad has brown eyes, and I'm not Swedish. Not cool, on top of everything else, I failed biology that year and ruined my GPA because I believed my parents.
My son has brown eyes, his wife has green/ brown. First child is blue eyed. Second child is brown eyed and third child is green eyed with red hair. Mom and dad both have black hair. But they both carry the recessive blue eye gene and the recessive red hair gene.
My former husband and I have blue eyes. Of our three children, one has hazel-green eyes, one has green eyes, and one has gray eyes. His entire family have hazel-green eyes. We believe that he does too, but the gene did not express. Interesting to note that our three children all had blue eyes until they were seven years old, when their eye colors changed.
God... I learned this at biology classes at school when I was 14. What are the grandparents of both sides eyes color? It's the same with ginger hair and skin color, hair, I mean...
I must be a miracle. My parents are my true DNA patents. And still I got the “wrong “ eye color. My father has blue eyes (his father blue eyes, his mother brown eyes). My mother has green eyes (father blue eyes, mother green eyes). I have brown eyes. 😮 I found this: “One parent with blue eyes and one parent with green eyes: 50% of chance of baby with blue eyes, 50% chance of baby with green eyes, 0% chance of baby with brown eyes.” And still I got brown eyes. My siblings have either green or blue eyes. Before DNA-testing I still knew my father was my biological father. As a child I looked exactly like my paternal grandmother. Nowadays I look a lot like my aunts and my male cousins. I also have traits that are common in his family: ADD, autism and face blindness. Still it has sometimes been tough to be the odd one, hinting on a scandal. But everyone that thought so were wrong. My father is my biological father. Maybe it’s a mutation that gave me brown eyes. I don’t know. But here I am, not following the genetic rules. Go figure.
Green and hazel eyes are a subset of BROWN eyes genetically...NOT blue. That's where people get confused because they think that green and blue eyes are the same. They are not. Green, hazel, and brown are the same. Blue is the outlier and the only recessive trait for eye color.
My hazel-eyed grandmother was the daughter of a blue-eyed Dane and a brown-eyed German. She had at least one blue-eyed and one brown-eyed sister that I met; not sure what the rest were. My grandmother married a blue-eyed man of English ancestry and every last one of their seven children had chocolate brown eyes. Most of those children went on to have a mix of blue-eyed and brown-eyed children. My (unscientific) opinion has always been that Scandinavian genes are powerful; perhaps my grandmother should have had brown eyes but the Danish genes were too strong.
Uh your grandparents genes may have a brown eye in them 🤦♀️. Both my patents have brown eyes yet my younger sister has blues/green eyes while I have brown eyes too
My sister in law has blue eyes, my brother has dark blue/green (people may call them just blue). They have a brown-eyer girl who looks just like my brother. It does happen, it's not just based on one gene.
My genetics professor discussed this. Yes, it does happen. It's rare, and for some, it's a mutation and for others, it's grandparents from grandparents or other ancestors. Dominant genes can be recessive. Genes are messy things.
What if two brown eyed parents had a blue eyed baby? My friend's sister has blue eyes. Her dad is Jamaican and her mum is Costa Rican. I don't know for sure but I'm pretty sure her great grandfather was white which is where the blue eyes came from.
The gene for blue eyes is recessive, so there's nothing unusual about two brown eyed parents having a blue eyed child. The probability of this happening is just over 6%.
@@themechanictangerine Well, in a way. Brown eyed parents do indeed have a 25% chance of having a non-brown eyed child, but non-brown can also mean green, which accounts for just under 19% ☺️
It's not COMPLETELY impossible because gene expression is not actually that simple. Genes can be turned off and on by other genes (and certain traits seem to be affected by environmental factors as well - tongue rolling is a more notable example of this that originally was attributed entirely to genetics and has since been shown to be a combination of factors, but I digress...) and the blending of the colors can also be an indicator. Does your parent have a brown ring inside their gray/blue eyes? Are their eyes green? Is your "brown" actually a hazel mix? Etc.. However, it IS quite rare, and it's completely fair to doubt or question your parentage if this is your situation.
25% 25% of the World population have a different colour eye than their parents. Good point on the colour of the Iris, the biology teachers, need to head back to school.
Brown is a dominant gene and would override the expression of the recessive blue-eyed gene if present, therefore there is no brown gene to give to the child if both parents have blue eyes.
@@Mrs.Silversmith In general, yes. However, there are several different genes that affect eye color. There are those that affect melanin production, iris formation, and genes that affect the expression of both those traits as well. So while extremely rare (1% or less from what I've read) it isn't actually impossible. It's taught as a simple Mendelian trait because it helps us understand the basics of biology, but that's only one piece of the puzzle. (It's absolutely worth a genetic test if it happens, though, just because it is so rare.)
@Mrs.Silversmith not factual Since there are 3 general genes so blue brown green or purple as sone have lilac colored eyes like elizabeth taylor did depends more on how the genes are expressing at that time.
i was always curious about the eye color thing, because my mom has blue eyes, but around the pupils is a bit gold/amber, and she has one radial line of it going out as well in one eye. so in theory she would have to have some other gene in there to get that color... but dad has blue eyes and I have blue eyes and no other siblings so i couldnt follow that thought further.
I have green eyes and my husband has blue eyes- our 2 children both have brown eyes. That’s because my dad has brown eyes and mom has green and my husband’s dad has blue eyes and his mom has brown eyes. So we both have brown eyes in our DNA even though we didn’t get the blue eyes.
I think if both parents have genes for brown eyes, even tho physically each parent has blue eyes, then it’s possible they could have a brown eyed child. My mother has brown eyes, dad has dark blue eyes, my sis and I have brown, another sis has green, and brother has very light blue.
A person can be genetically brown eyed or hazel but something happens to the enzyme that produces the color and the appearance of the eyes is blue. I have blue eyes with a central yellowish. My daughter's father had blue eyes. Our daughters eyes are an amber hazel perceived as brown. This video is mis-leading.
She is right. Two blues cannot have a brown eyed child. There are 4 possible gene combos for a human to have: BB,Bb,bB, and bb. Anything with a B gene will have brown eyes,but that’s the only way you get brown eyes. If your parents have blue eyes,they will both be bb,with no chance of either of them contributing the B gene necessary for brown eyes.
Not true. Blue eyes are a recessive trait, whilst brown eyes are a dominant genetic trait. If any of you grandparents had brown eyes then there is a statistically significant chance that the child of two blue eyed parents could have brown eyes.
....here they come: all the armchair experts convinced the 'science is wrong' and that their blue-eyed pop really is their daddy. Lol. Guys, do a dna test. 😅
These trifling moms out here getting exposed. How sad for the kids and the guys who raised them though. I always have thought about how many old ladies prob died inside when they found out that ancestry dna testing was becoming common. Grandmas squeaky clean legacy destroyed.
@ of course both parties are in the wrong but it’s pretty messed up to make someone raise a kid that isn’t theirs. That’s the issue being discussed and obviously these women chose to let their husbands believe those kids belonged to them and the kids to believe the same. Which is very traumatizing for all involved if it ever comes out as this video shows.
😊 The Bible says, "Be sure that your sins will find you out." 😊 *Tsk-tsk mom, for lying and then asking your daughter to lie. I know it's hard but it's best to just come clean. 🤍
Eye colour is more complex than that. I spoke to a genetics expert and he told me blue eyed parent can have a brown eyed baby. It is extremely rare, so rare that they would normally question paternity first. My kids have 2 blue eyed parents and they are Brown, blue, green, brown, blue. We were confused by the "high school science", but it hsppens.
It is possible for two blue eyed parents to have a brown eyed child. Those are the recessive genes. My Mom has brown, my Dad has blue and I have green. We have done the Ancestry in years past and we all match up. Eye color is complex. In this story it worked out to be true, but I would not tell anyone it is impossible.
@Cosmic88Connections no
There are 3 genes it is not like a painting formula
you are 100% right about the blued eyed parents having brown eyed kids, but not the recessive part. recessive genes hide on brown, blue is recessive, brown doesn't hide.. highschool genetics is really simplistic. i have blue eyes my husband has blue eyes our kids are dark brown, blue, green, light brown, brightest blue to ever blue. when we asked a genetics expert he said it is definately possible, though incredibly rare.. They are 100% my husbands kids and we live in a country where there are no nursuries in hospitals as the babies room in with mum. my babies never left our sight.
Your mom is a Bb and your dad is a bb. That combination can have brown or blue eyed children,but that’s not the discussion we’re having. We’re talking about two bbs haveing a child with brown eyes,which MUSThave a B gene which neither of those parents can contribute.
My ex and I both have blue eyes and we have two brown eyed girls and one blue eyed boy
My dad has brown hair and hazel eyes. My mom has dark brown hair and brown eyes. My oldest sister has hair/eye coloring just like my mom. My younger sister has the same coloring as my dad. I have blonde hair that turned light brown at puberty and blue eyes. My younger sister growing up tortured me with - you’re the milk man’s daughter. When she had a daughter she was my spitting image so I tortured her with the milk man’s daughter…. (I look like both my parents…)
Hazel eyes are the wild card.
I don’t think the eye color is that cut and dry. Brown is supposed to be dominant, but I have dark brown eyes and my parents had grey eyes and hazel/green eyes. Two of my sisters had the hazel colors, and one was very blue. If brown is dominant, then one of my parents would have to have brown eyes. I need to add I have my dad’s dimple and eye shape etc, so I don’t think there was anything else going on. One of my aunts had brown eyes, so maybe genetics is more complicated.
My grandparents both had blue eyes. I was told the same thing in high school. Many years later dna proves he is their son.
My brother/sisters and I have parents with brown eyes. My sister has green eyes, another sister and I have blue eyes, one brother has blues eyes and one brother brown eyes. 100% we are all brothers and sisters and our mum and dad ARE our mum and dad. PROVEN FACTS. Also it's NOT uncommon for 2 blue eyed parents to have a brown eyed child, 25% chance if the parents have the third Gene that can determine eye colour - HERC2. So people, please do not think your folks are not your folks, if you have a different eye colour.
Yeah I'm an example of this.
One of my parents had blue eyes, the other had grey eyes. Three of us had brown eyes, one with green, the other had grey. Not a blue eyed child in the bunch. Mine tend towards a light golden is brown with hazel tones. Not a blue eyed child in the bunch. My DNA matches my nieces and nephews/ great nephews very closely. We also match cousins on both sides. The brown eyes came from grandparents on one side, the grey was passed down from a great grandmother. The green came from our paternal side.
@@Nickifoster-hl3ux Heaven forbid that a lot of people think their parents are not their parents based on this one example lol
@@lroach5238 That is just great, yes we are all products of our ancesters. 25% of the world population do not have the same eye colour as their parents.
Exactly. My parents and one sibling all have blue eyes. Other sibling has green eyes, I have hazel eyes.
Brown eyes are dominant. My aunt and uncle have blue/light grey eyes. They have children with blues eyes and children with brown eyes
Both of my blue eyed grandkids have both brown eyed parents. DNA confirmed.
There's nothing unusual about this. What's unusual is blue eyed parents having brown eyed children.
I am the eldest of five, both parents had brown eyes but three of my siblings have blue eyes. Eye colour is a variable thing, there are no absolutes.
My close friends have 10 children. Both were blue eyed. Baby # 9 came with brown eyes. Baby #10 again with blue like the others. So, yes, two blue eyes can have a brown eyed baby- takes after the extended family.
Did you do a DNA to prove it?
My oldest sister and her daughters' father have blue eyes and both my nieces have green eyes. One has red roots and a pale golden skin tone, but the other has ash blond hair and an olive complection. The second daughter has a purple edge around the green while her sister doesn't. My other sister and her husband have brown eyes; Their son has a brown eye and a blue eye, and he is also blond where the other siblings have dark hair and olive skin as adults.
This happened to me, except my blue eyed parents convinced my brown eyed self that the text book was wrong. Small town, poor education system, the textbooks old, and out of date, it's not right said my mom. I was 35 when I did a 23 and me.... My bio dad has brown eyes, and I'm not Swedish. Not cool, on top of everything else, I failed biology that year and ruined my GPA because I believed my parents.
Look at blue eyed William & Kate….. whose 3 kids have brown eyes….even when both sets of grandparents have blue eyes.
This is very “SUS”. 🤔😬
My son has brown eyes, his wife has green/ brown. First child is blue eyed. Second child is brown eyed and third child is green eyed with red hair. Mom and dad both have black hair. But they both carry the recessive blue eye gene and the recessive red hair gene.
My former husband and I have blue eyes. Of our three children, one has hazel-green eyes, one has green eyes, and one has gray eyes. His entire family have hazel-green eyes. We believe that he does too, but the gene did not express. Interesting to note that our three children all had blue eyes until they were seven years old, when their eye colors changed.
I didn't watch this video, but my parents both have blue eyes and 4 of their kids have hazel eyes, one green, and only one blue eyed child.
God... I learned this at biology classes at school when I was 14. What are the grandparents of both sides eyes color? It's the same with ginger hair and skin color, hair, I mean...
I must be a miracle. My parents are my true DNA patents. And still I got the “wrong “ eye color.
My father has blue eyes (his father blue eyes, his mother brown eyes). My mother has green eyes (father blue eyes, mother green eyes).
I have brown eyes. 😮
I found this:
“One parent with blue eyes and one parent with green eyes: 50% of chance of baby with blue eyes, 50% chance of baby with green eyes, 0% chance of baby with brown eyes.”
And still I got brown eyes. My siblings have either green or blue eyes.
Before DNA-testing I still knew my father was my biological father. As a child I looked exactly like my paternal grandmother. Nowadays I look a lot like my aunts and my male cousins. I also have traits that are common in his family: ADD, autism and face blindness.
Still it has sometimes been tough to be the odd one, hinting on a scandal. But everyone that thought so were wrong. My father is my biological father.
Maybe it’s a mutation that gave me brown eyes. I don’t know. But here I am, not following the genetic rules. Go figure.
Green and hazel eyes are a subset of BROWN eyes genetically...NOT blue. That's where people get confused because they think that green and blue eyes are the same. They are not. Green, hazel, and brown are the same. Blue is the outlier and the only recessive trait for eye color.
My hazel-eyed grandmother was the daughter of a blue-eyed Dane and a brown-eyed German. She had at least one blue-eyed and one brown-eyed sister that I met; not sure what the rest were. My grandmother married a blue-eyed man of English ancestry and every last one of their seven children had chocolate brown eyes. Most of those children went on to have a mix of blue-eyed and brown-eyed children. My (unscientific) opinion has always been that Scandinavian genes are powerful; perhaps my grandmother should have had brown eyes but the Danish genes were too strong.
Uh your grandparents genes may have a brown eye in them 🤦♀️. Both my patents have brown eyes yet my younger sister has blues/green eyes while I have brown eyes too
My sister in law has blue eyes, my brother has dark blue/green (people may call them just blue). They have a brown-eyer girl who looks just like my brother. It does happen, it's not just based on one gene.
Isnt eye chart like the blood type . When mapping it
My genetics professor discussed this. Yes, it does happen. It's rare, and for some, it's a mutation and for others, it's grandparents from grandparents or other ancestors. Dominant genes can be recessive. Genes are messy things.
What if two brown eyed parents had a blue eyed baby? My friend's sister has blue eyes. Her dad is Jamaican and her mum is Costa Rican. I don't know for sure but I'm pretty sure her great grandfather was white which is where the blue eyes came from.
The gene for blue eyes is recessive, so there's nothing unusual about two brown eyed parents having a blue eyed child. The probability of this happening is just over 6%.
@@katharina...I thought it was around 25% when both brown eyed parents have the recessive gene for blue eyes
@@themechanictangerine Well, in a way. Brown eyed parents do indeed have a 25% chance of having a non-brown eyed child, but non-brown can also mean green, which accounts for just under 19% ☺️
It's not COMPLETELY impossible because gene expression is not actually that simple. Genes can be turned off and on by other genes (and certain traits seem to be affected by environmental factors as well - tongue rolling is a more notable example of this that originally was attributed entirely to genetics and has since been shown to be a combination of factors, but I digress...) and the blending of the colors can also be an indicator. Does your parent have a brown ring inside their gray/blue eyes? Are their eyes green? Is your "brown" actually a hazel mix? Etc..
However, it IS quite rare, and it's completely fair to doubt or question your parentage if this is your situation.
Science teachers need to stop saying it's impossible--it's just very unlikely.
25% 25% of the World population have a different colour eye than their parents. Good point on the colour of the Iris, the biology teachers, need to head back to school.
Brown is a dominant gene and would override the expression of the recessive blue-eyed gene if present, therefore there is no brown gene to give to the child if both parents have blue eyes.
@@Mrs.Silversmith In general, yes. However, there are several different genes that affect eye color. There are those that affect melanin production, iris formation, and genes that affect the expression of both those traits as well. So while extremely rare (1% or less from what I've read) it isn't actually impossible. It's taught as a simple Mendelian trait because it helps us understand the basics of biology, but that's only one piece of the puzzle. (It's absolutely worth a genetic test if it happens, though, just because it is so rare.)
@Mrs.Silversmith not factual
Since there are 3 general genes so blue brown green or purple as sone have lilac colored eyes like elizabeth taylor did depends more on how the genes are expressing at that time.
Just because both parents are blue eyes….. doesn’t mean that one of the grandparents or great grandparents didn’t have brown eyes. 🤷🏻♀️
i was always curious about the eye color thing, because my mom has blue eyes, but around the pupils is a bit gold/amber, and she has one radial line of it going out as well in one eye. so in theory she would have to have some other gene in there to get that color... but dad has blue eyes and I have blue eyes and no other siblings so i couldnt follow that thought further.
I have green eyes and my husband has blue eyes- our 2 children both have brown eyes. That’s because my dad has brown eyes and mom has green and my husband’s dad has blue eyes and his mom has brown eyes. So we both have brown eyes in our DNA even though we didn’t get the blue eyes.
I think if both parents have genes for brown eyes, even tho physically each parent has blue eyes, then it’s possible they could have a brown eyed child. My mother has brown eyes, dad has dark blue eyes, my sis and I have brown, another sis has green, and brother has very light blue.
Here's another thought my parents are both 0 positive out of 8 children I'm the only one that's 0 negative it's a recessive gene
What happens with people that are born with one blue eye and one brown eye?
My father’s biological parents he has blue she had brown .my father has blue eyes and his 3siblings are brown!
Two blues can have brown, but it is close to 1:1000 therefore 0%
Curiosity killed that cat!
Both of my parents have blue eyes. I have blue eyes. My sister has hazel or brown eyes. We have done ancestry and we are full sisters??
A person can be genetically brown eyed or hazel but something happens to the enzyme that produces the color and the appearance of the eyes is blue. I have blue eyes with a central yellowish. My daughter's father had blue eyes. Our daughters eyes are an amber hazel perceived as brown. This video is mis-leading.
Both of my parents have blue eyes and I have Hazel
I hope the client had the decent gene to tell her father.
If one of my parents has blue eyes and the other has blue eyes and I have blue eyes then I marry a blue eyed man I could have a brown eyed child.
I have brown eyes my daughters have blue and the other has blueish green
She is right. Two blues cannot have a brown eyed child. There are 4 possible gene combos for a human to have: BB,Bb,bB, and bb. Anything with a B gene will have brown eyes,but that’s the only way you get brown eyes. If your parents have blue eyes,they will both be bb,with no chance of either of them contributing the B gene necessary for brown eyes.
There are many more than four genes involved in eye color.
Not true. Blue eyes are a recessive trait, whilst brown eyes are a dominant genetic trait. If any of you grandparents had brown eyes then there is a statistically significant chance that the child of two blue eyed parents could have brown eyes.
....here they come: all the armchair experts convinced the 'science is wrong' and that their blue-eyed pop really is their daddy. Lol. Guys, do a dna test. 😅
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These trifling moms out here getting exposed. How sad for the kids and the guys who raised them though. I always have thought about how many old ladies prob died inside when they found out that ancestry dna testing was becoming common. Grandmas squeaky clean legacy destroyed.
Why blame only the women? What about the men who sleep with a married woman?
@ of course both parties are in the wrong but it’s pretty messed up to make someone raise a kid that isn’t theirs. That’s the issue being discussed and obviously these women chose to let their husbands believe those kids belonged to them and the kids to believe the same. Which is very traumatizing for all involved if it ever comes out as this video shows.
That’s a myth. It’s rare but it happens.
😊 The Bible says, "Be sure that your sins will find you out." 😊
*Tsk-tsk mom, for lying and then asking your daughter to lie. I know it's hard but it's best to just come clean. 🤍