What are the chances of a mulatto kid being born with blue/green eyes?

What are the chances of offspring from black men and white women,being born with blue/green eyes?

 

50/50 chance. There are two girls in my church who are half black and half white. they have blue and green eyes. they are 10 and 6 years old.

 

Well i had a driver at my old works place (he was dark dark skinned) he brought his son in with him once at the weekend he was a teenager and he had the most startling blue eyes, but they were a dark blue as opposed to the light, light blue you see in caucasians.
I dont really know the chances but it has to be pretty low otherwise we'd see more of than we do i suppose ?

But that word Mulatto cant we stck to mixed race or something less offensive to us Europeans plz.

 

A UK RnB singer called Lemar is Nigerian (both parents) and he has natural green eyes.

 

I'm not into genetics, but i'd say 50-50. My 6 year old niece is mixed and she has green eyes. Her mom also has green eyes so i guess that's where it comes from.

 

Well,green eyes is somewhat quite common

what about blue eyes?

 

Isn't there a similar thread like this but with pictures/videos from youtube and shit?:smt102

 

Brown eyes are predominant in humans[23] and, in many populations, it is (with few exceptions) the only iris color present.[24] It is less common in countries around the Baltic Sea and in Scandinavia.

In humans, brown eyes contain large amounts of melanin within the iris stroma, which serves to absorb light, particularly at the shorter wavelengths. Brown eyes are the most common eye color, with over half of the world population having them. They are also the most dominant eye color gene.[5][25] Very dark brown irises may appear at a glance to be black.[26][27]

I doubt its 50/50 as the world as a whole is over 50% brown eyed, math wise at a guess maybe 20%, the above is from wikpedia,
its got all the eye colours apparently Hazel my own is a less common one ratio wise, although upto the age of 2 i had blue eyes, its a really interesting read.

 

http://www.athro.com/evo/gen/inherit1.html

http://www.athro.com/evo/gen/genefr2.html

 

I got those. In pictures my eyes almost always look black, and somebody has to look closely in person to realize my eyes are actually brown.

 

What are the chances that this thread will go on much longer than it should?

100%.

 

Well if that didn't happen with everythread there would ultimately be nothing to read

 

Genetics is very tricky. First you have to know if eye color is a recessive or dominant gene, then which color.
Anyways, if you are interested, there is a website that will calcualte chances of having a particular eye color. It will assess what color of eyes your children will have.
Check it out.

http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html

 

http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html


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That was fun! Heh. If I understood the one SoCal posted, correctly, then my babies have a 13.6% chance of blue eyes, and a 13.6% chance for green eyes, and a 72.7% brown eyes. I don't know what color my eyes are though. I just say blue. In pictures, with a flash, they look really bright clear blue. But IRL they are like a weird blue-ish, green-ish, gray-ish color. :smt017

 

Well according to the study of iridology there are only 2 colors of eyes.

Brown, and blue, the true brown eyes are only seen in some Eskimo tribes and in Africans and their descendants. Any other color of eye is a discoloration, and is caused by some health issue whether inherited or not.

It's a fascinating science and in my life has held pretty true, all my kids were born with blue eyes, even the one who now has the darkest brown eyes was born with dark cloudy blue eyes and I had been heavily medicated while pregnant with him which is one of the main causes for eye discoloration, especially the browns.

My son that has the least in conventional health treatments and I've worked mostly in natural ways to help him stay healthy is the one with the clearest blue eyes today.

Here's a link if anyone is interested. http://users.mrbean.net.au/~wlast/iris.diagnosis.html

 

oh...this thread just brought back bad memories of genetics..the semester of hell!

all i know if that for a child to get blue or green eyes, both parents must carry the recessive gene. i wish i could draw on here i'd totally make a punnett square.

of course there's the argument of codominance and such.

there is always a chance, it just depends on ancestry...maybe even a mutation in the genes.