Quote Originally Posted by ccga3359 View Post
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