If both parents have brown eyes (light/dark) Green eyes run in the family on the Father's Mother side....Odds?

Question

Hello,

I am just wondering what are the odds lets say if a both parents have brown eyes (mother=Dark/Father=Light)

Father's MOM side has green eyes (not her but her siblings)

so my question is ...Does that child have a chance of having green eyes?

Is there a certain "side" of the family a child characteristic has a higher percent of gaining from?

Hope this makes sense..

!!

Answer 1

The child has a chance at blue, green or hazel eyes.

Answer 2

Violet is right, although I don't know why she seems so 'tweaked.'  But...

The chances of a child having any given color eyes depends upon the mother and the father's dominant and recessive eye color traits.

For example, I have brown eyes but (because my father has brown eyes but my mother has blue eyes) I have a recessive trait for blue eyes.  My husband has hazel eyes (which is a recessive trait - his father had hazel and his mother had brown).  We have a daughter together.  Her eyes are not brown like mine, nor are they hazel like his - they are blue.  

In your case, your child has a chance of having green eyes if both parents have a recessive for green/blue/hazel colored eyes.  You have to have two recessives for it to be 'expressed.'

There isn't a certain side, regarding eye color, which will be expressed more or less.  (not to the best of my knowledge)

Answer 3

This is the genealogy forum.  Not genetics.  They are NOT the same thing.

Genealogy is a HISTORICAL body of research of one's deceased ancestors, and is about birth/marriage/death dates and places, what countries our ancestors came from, how our ancestors affected and impacted history, etc; and uses HISTORICAL documents such as birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates, tax records, land records, court records, church records, wills and probate records, etc., to back up and document our research, and anyone can do it if they work at it.

Genetics is a SCIENCE that requires years of college and specialized training to do, and is concerned with genes, microbiology, etc., and uses SCIENTIFIC methods and experiments to prove or disprove theory or to show cause and effect.  Research is done in a lab, not in the records basement of court houses and churches.

Genealogists are not geneticists.