Why is that I have blue eyes while my parents have green eyes?
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Question: Why is that I have blue eyes while my parents have green eyes?
Everybody has green eyes in my family except for me.
Q&A:
Answer by soulsekr13
It is possible you have a recessive gene. I have a friend whose kids have blue eyes yet her and the father have brown.
Answer by Faith
your grandparents might have blue eyes, its just the genetics, the darker color eyes over power the lighter ones, and if both of your parents have the blue eye recessive gene there’s a 1 in 4 chance that you got blue eyes. ( its kind of hard to show you unless you took bio )
Answer by Vidushi
your father and mother must be having , 1 gene for blue eye color and one gene for green eye color. you must have received gene for blue eye color from both your parents.
Answer by im
Eye color is produced by yellow and black melanin deposited in the front of the iris. Green eyed people are homozygous recessive for black (bb) but not for yellow. (Actually there are several genes for each, so that there is a spectrum of eye colors, but let’s keep it simple.) Blue eyed people are homozygous recessive for both black (bb) and yellow (yy) melanin. If both of your parents are heterozygous for yellow melanin (Yy), then 3/4 of their children would be green eyed (YY and Yy) but 1/4 would be blue eyed (yy).
So, the possibilities are
(1) Heterozygous parents, and dumb luck that everyone but you is green eyed. (Actually, since most families are small, this wouldn’t be an unusual outcome statistically.) However, if your grandparents, and aunts and uncles that are blood relatives, all have green eyes, then you must consider the possibility that
(2) You are a foundling, left on the doorstep by a family of poor blue eyed people.
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Answer by Leviathan
They’re not your real folks!!! Just teasing, the answer is due to recessive genes. Do you have siblings? It seems your parents both have an allele for blue eyes which was not expressed in their phenotype but due to some gene shuffling, you’ve ended up with a double recessive gene and get the blue eyes. Look at it this way. There are two genes G for green eyes, and b for blue eyes. Let’s say there are 4 kids, on average (but not always) it will work out this way:
GG (green eyes) Gb (green eyes as it is dominant) bG (green eyes – same as the last one and often written the same way) and finally bb – as the gene is recessive it is only expressed when in the company of another gene for blue eyes.
Answer by Johnny Sama
Because your truth fater is the postman. 
Answer by mareeclara
There are actually several genes associated with eye colour, including ones called modifier genes that can alter eye colour.
This is why my mother had blue eyes, my father hazel with green/yellow flecks, my brother has hazel over a blue background, my sister blue and I have green eyes…modifier genes can gives variations of pigmentation and how its distributed. I would personally be more worried if you had brown eyes and both parents had blue! Your example is more explainable.
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