inherited eye colour question

[mummy115]

i read in daily paper that if a dad has brown eyes and mum blue child will have brown as predominent brown gene.so if a dad has hazel and mum blue should all children have hazel/brown or can they have blue?any experts.my hubby hazel and me blue our children have hazel.however his children from previous blue eyed partner is one of each.....(she was sleeping around at time blue one conceived so its preying on our minds)is it possible or not?

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blue and green are dominant, brown is a recessive. it is not possible for two brown eyed parents to have a blue eyed child...

Oh for heaven's sake it's not controlled by one gene, so it is possible.

mmmmmffpphh

[the sound of CM's sobbing, muffled by Tamum's ample norkage...]

Dh has blue eyes but his parents are both brown - does this mean his parentage is suspect?

She does errrrr know what she's talking about, with genetics, does Tamum....

Thank you for the support

Floating on the med. It is very har when you teach biology not to over simplify things. If we did the full on 'REal' thing, kids of 14-15 couldn't cope. I do tell them that it is an over simplification though.

Tamum is, as ever 100% right on this one.

I remember teaching photosynthesis to a class who objected strongly when I told them it was a simplification. They demanded the real thing, so I gave them 5 minutes. At which point they accepted that they couldn't , at that stage, cope with the 'real thing'

DH has very bright hazel eyes and I have bluey eyes (I call them 'puddle' colour as they are not a bright blue)

Our dd has GREY eyes. Quite a peculiar colour really, almost can't put a colour to it but most similar to GREY

I know it's pretty much nothing to do with the thread, but just to warn you that if you learned that tongue-rolling was also a dominant gene, ignore it and any potential paternity issues it may throw up too (rolling can be learned). Apparently, that one crept into a school textbook in the 70s and was copied over and over. After I heard that, I stopped teaching GCSE genetics based on real genes - do aliens and their square vs triangular eyes now. Bit of a cop-out, but I'm of CarolinaMoon's sensibility when it comes to genetics and parentage...

I think we may have hit on a way to subversively influence the next generation though - write science textbooks!

OMG cyberminger, I believed the tongue-rolling thing too

(love the name btw!)

I'm sure there are others CarolinaMoon. In fact, you could probably also write a nice christmas stocking book full of Miss' Science Misconceptions. If I could be bothered, it would of course make me millions. Though it probably already has done just that for someone more organised...

hang on

did sleepfinder just insinuate I've been playing away?

Sorry this is hilarious!
Well it would be if it weren't quite similar to how people "know" about evolution and start thinking that creationism might just be a viable alternative "theory".