Genetics: Would i be able to have children of this (read more)?

Question

I'm not looking to have children or be in a relationship for a long time but this thought popped up!

I want to know if my children can be born with lighter skin and green eyes. My dad has white skin, my mom has brown (soft brown). I have soft brown skin too, but my baby sister has light brown. Does it still mean that I have recessive genes of white skin? Could I pass it to my children if my husband has white skin? As for green eyes, i think one of my cousins had them when he was a baby (dad's side) but they changed to brown. If my husband had green eyes, or it ran in his family, would my child then be able to have green eyes? ***None of this matters but I am just curious***

Answer 1

My aunt and uncle both have brown hair and brown eyes. My aunt is part Puerto Rican and part Scottish. My Uncle is German. They have a daughter with blonde hair and blue eyes. So I think your situation could happen...

Answer 2

anythings possible hun. myself, my twin, my whole family are ginger, but my son is really dark skin and eyes, my sis has a white blond girly

Answer 3

Light skin is recessive compared to dark skin so if you have a gene for dark skin you will always have dark skin. However, your dad must have only had lighter skin genes to have light skin so he has passed this onto you. So you probably have Dark skinned gene from your mom and light skinned gene from dad.

If your future husband has light skin, you will probably have a light skinned child, since he will have to pass on the lightskinned gene since that is the only one he has, and you have probably a 50/50 of passing it on. So the combinations possible are Dark skin from you, light skin from him; light skin from both of you. However skin color is kinda a strange gene and you may just end up with children in between you skin tones, as light as him or as dark as you (as well as possibly lighter or darker). Are you of mixed race because I know at least 5 people who have 1 white parent, and 1 parent with mostly dark ancestry but a little of white thrown in somewhere and they all have dark skin like the darker parent but blue, green or hazel eyes.

It depends on your eye color, your parents eye color and the same for you husband as to what color eyes your child will have. You need to have a gene for green or blue eyes on both sides. Brown eyes are practically always expressed if you have the gene for them, green eyes are less dominant than brown eyes but more dominant than blue eyes.

If everyone in your husbands family had green eyes even going back 100's of years you would still need to have a blue eye or green eye gene to possibly have a green eyed child, and like the skin color one, not all your children would probably have this.

I don't know you or your parents eye colors but I do know to get blue eyes you need two blue eye genes (bb), to get green eyes you need 2 green eye gene or green and blue (GG or Gb) and brown eyes you can have two browns, brown and blue or brown and green (BB, Bb, BG). From this 2 brown eyed parents can have a blue eyed child, but 2 blue eyed parents will always have a blue eyed child.

If we knew eye color we could probably work out the chances of your future offspring being a green eyed monster like me hehe.

But it depends on your genetic and your future husbands,;your child could be albino (almost white with red eyes) or dark brown, almost black with brown eyes  to anything in between.