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Post by HereIsGone on Jan 23, 2009 0:30:54 GMT -5
I'm bored so I'd thought I'd ask.
Mine are blueish-grey/blueish-green depending on the light and I have a gold ring right around my pupils.
The cool thing about it is that neither of my parents have blueish eyes. My mom's are green and my dad's are brown (both of my brothers have brown eyes though they're different shades of brown). I think I get it from my maternal grandpa though his are just blue.
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Post by TuckedAway on Jan 23, 2009 0:37:13 GMT -5
Green/Hazel
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Post by googal70 on Jan 23, 2009 8:00:12 GMT -5
boring old brown, same with my husband but my son was blessed with beautiful blue/grey eyes. Kind of stormy looking. I'll be beating the girls off.
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Post by BulletProof on Jan 23, 2009 8:25:47 GMT -5
I have blue eyes. Sometimes people say green or grey, but I think blue
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Post by googal70 on Jan 23, 2009 8:45:41 GMT -5
They must change with what you are wearing like my son's do.
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Post by BulletProof on Jan 23, 2009 9:19:20 GMT -5
Yeah, and I think it depends on what kind of light is shining in my eyes.
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Post by googal70 on Jan 23, 2009 9:22:42 GMT -5
Yes that happens too, sometimes my eyes are even pretty in the light
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Post by thinkaboutgoo on Jan 23, 2009 9:32:59 GMT -5
I have green/hazel eyes too and they change to a greyish color sometimes.
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Post by googal70 on Jan 23, 2009 9:34:02 GMT -5
I'm so jealous! LOL
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Post by TuckedAway on Jan 23, 2009 12:43:58 GMT -5
Awwww... There is nothing wrong with brown eyes! My "It's Complicated" has brown eyes.... *goes all crushy-dreamy for a second*
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Post by googal70 on Jan 23, 2009 13:02:20 GMT -5
LOL
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Post by thinkaboutgoo on Jan 23, 2009 18:32:23 GMT -5
My daughters father has brown eyes and she has blue. Where did she get her color from?
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Post by TuckedAway on Jan 23, 2009 19:41:05 GMT -5
Recessive genes. I think... I've always heard Blue was a recessive/weak gene.
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Post by HereIsGone on Jan 23, 2009 19:57:10 GMT -5
Yep. You're right on that one. Blue is a recessive gene and brown is a dominant one, it goes like this (Blue[weakest]<Green<Brown[dominant]).
In order for a recessive trait to show, the two genes which make-up a trait must be recessive. All a dominant trait needs to show up is to be present, whether it's dominant-dominant or dominant-recessive. When someone has dominant-recessive genes, they can still pass the recessive gene by chance as long as the other gene their partner passes along is also recessive.
To answer your question thinkaboutgoo, since you have a recessive-recessive gene for your eye colour, it would mean that your daughter's father's genes for eye colour is dominant-recessive. If it was dominant-dominant, any children he has would have brown eyes.
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Post by googal70 on Jan 23, 2009 20:17:28 GMT -5
That is exactly why my son has blue eyes, both my husband and I have one parent with blue eye leaving that parent only the recessive genes to pass on to us. So by chance two got together and made my son's eyes blue.
I just love genetics!
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