My Mom has blue eyes, and my Dad has hazel eyes, so why are mine green!?

Question

this is the iris of my eye, lol

http://s272.photobucket.com/albums/jj178/ricepudding_2008/?action=view&current=001.jpg

Answer 1

Both my parents have blue eyes and 3 of the 6 of us are green eyed it's hereditary. I gues one of my gt.grandparents was hazel-eyed and my Irish granfather was green eyed. and I know for sure my Swedish grandfather had bright green eyes. When my mom would get mad, her blue eyes flashed green... thats when my dad took her a bit more seriously lol

any hazel-eyed person can produce a green eyed child.

Answer 2

Hi Coco

I think quite possibly if you look really close in a mirror in good light you may find that your eyes are a mix of blue and hazel, which together as a combination gives the impression of green. The photo you have provided also give that impression. Mine are green but on close inspection look like a mix of: dark blue outer, blue/grey inner and hazel around the pupil.

Answer 3

Do any of your grandparent's have green eyes? If so, your mom (for example) could have taken both the green eye gene and the blue eye gene, but only expressed the blue eye gene. Though they are blue-eyed, they can still pass on either the blue or green gene to you...I guess you got the green gene!

Answer 4

you were adopted

oops

they haven't told you yet have they

LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

Hazel is defined as "a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone's eyes ."  You evidently got the green eyes from your Dad.

http://www.eyecarecontacts.com/eyecolor.... says:

Brown eyes, blues eyes, and green eyes are the "standard" eye colors, but we've all seen people with even different eye colors. There's also gray, "hazel", a mixed brown/green/blue, golden brown or amber, even violet. Eye color is determined primarily by the concentration and distribution of melanin pigment on the iris fibers. If the iris contains pigment on both the front and back surface, the incident light that reflects off the iris is brown. Sometimes there is little or no pigment on the front surface. The light interacts with the gray iris fibers and the iris stromal cells and reflects as blue. The size and spacing of the fibers and stromal cells determines the "blueness" or "greenness' of the reflected light."

(It goes on from here, if you'd care to read more)

Answer 6

Multiple alleles control eye color.

Your mom or dad could have an allele for green eyes, but it is masked by the stronger blue/hazel allele.

Answer 7

You inherited the blue pigment from your mother's eyes and the yellow pigment from your father's hazel eyes. Afterall, yellow, orange, and brown pigments make hazel eye color.

Abracadabra you get green!

Answer 8

My moms are brown and my dads blue mine Change from drk Hazel to blue. Our eye color is inherited trates which are passed down from parent to child. We share both parents DNA in our inheritance. Like when different skin color people mate and produce a child. The child may be the same as either parent or completely different it is in the role of the dice! The important thing is that you know that you are the product of them both and your eye color doesn't matter as long as there is light coming from inside to brighten the eye!God bless you.

Answer 9

This is Genealogy and we research dead people.  You might get more responses over in biology.

Your eyes look blue, green and gold to me.  Very pretty.

Answer 10

you probably got it from another relative

Answer 11

there are 14 different things that determine one's eyecolor

obviously your parents carried "green-eye" genes, they just didn't show

my eyes look exactly like my grandfather's and not my parent's.

perfectly normal.

Answer 12

Check these sites out. Some of them may be too detailed or too complex.

You can pick and choose in that case.

www.springerlink.com/index/2045q6234h6...

There is an original  study scholarly investigation here.

Somewhat technical.

www.athro.com/evo/gen/inherit1.html -

This is a commercial site, yes.

But “drill” it. It has interactive parts.

Both genetics and biology explained

At the level of High School or College

Some good illustrations here as well as text

www.wonderquest.com/qi-humans.htm

Select “search wonnderquest”

“human eye color” in the Search box (no quotes)

Drill lists  

www.eyecarecontacts.com/eyecolor.html

All text here. Some  stats. Watch dates &

Qualifiers here. Semi-scholarly. Heed

warnings.

http://www.answers.com/topic/eye-color

Drill here. Lots of technical info.

www.kumc.edu/gec/support/eyecolor.html

Follow the links

www.illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetai...  

Lesson Plan here with illustrations to construct.