Blue eyes?

**ccga3359** · 8th February 08, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

Ah shucks!... I still stand by my statement that I think blue eyes with brown hair look beautiful.

Thank you Ted for noticing, I try to look my best.

I have blue eyes (as Ted pointed out) my wife, hazel (as in Witch Hazel

). When she was schooling to be a nurse she came home and said that she had the dominant eye colour and mine were whatever the scientific term is for whipped. She also told me that our offspring would have her colour. Happy, happy, joy, joy both of our kids have my gorgeous blue eyes. Hmmm, perhaps she's not their real Mom after all (

please, please

).

**Bugbear** · 8th February 08, 04:04 PM

Originally Posted by ccga3359

Thank you Ted for noticing, I try to look my best.

I have blue eyes (as Ted pointed out) my wife, hazel (as in Witch Hazel

). When she was schooling to be a nurse she came home and said that she had the dominant eye colour and mine were whatever the scientific term is for whipped. She also told me that our offspring would have her colour. Happy, happy, joy, joy both of our kids have my gorgeous blue eyes. Hmmm, perhaps she's not their real Mom after all (

please, please

).

Well, you are quite welcome.

And the part about your wife... I don't know anything about that...

**McFarkus** · 11th February 08, 09:51 AM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

Well, you are quite welcome.

And the part about your wife... I don't know anything about that...

What color eyes did the mail lady (excuse me, letter carrier) have?

**Bugbear** · 11th February 08, 10:18 AM

Originally Posted by McFarkus

What color eyes did the mail lady (excuse me, letter carrier) have?

Postal blue... Unless she was with UPS, then I guess her eyes would be brown.

And I still don't know anything about that...

In fact, I'm feeling uncomfortable with this conversation. I liked talking about the oatmeal cookies more.

**Jerry** · 11th February 08, 05:28 AM

Originally Posted by ccga3359

Thank you Ted for noticing, I try to look my best.

I have blue eyes (as Ted pointed out) my wife, hazel (as in Witch Hazel

). When she was schooling to be a nurse she came home and said that she had the dominant eye colour and mine were whatever the scientific term is for whipped. She also told me that our offspring would have her colour. Happy, happy, joy, joy both of our kids have my gorgeous blue eyes. Hmmm, perhaps she's not their real Mom after all (

please, please

).

Since blue is a recessive gene, that means that the blue only shows up in an individual with two Bl. genes on the XY pair of chromosomes. Since you have blue, your XY pair is BL/BL. Being recessive, your wife, even though she has Hazel eyes is most likely, Br /BL, with the Br (for brown) being dominant. Since each parent contributes one of the XY pair, your kids had to get one BL from you and the recessive BL from your wife. Each of your offspring has a 75 percent chance of having blue eyes