I have blue eyes,white skin, my partner has hazel/green eyes sallow skin. What eye colour will my baby have?

I would definitely agree with the biologist :) He makes a great point there are many factors in determining eye color and there is a possibility that many color combinations can come up. I also find it very interesting about how other anomalies occur that can throw off expected genetic traits!

I just wanted to post this baby eye color calculator that I have come across. You enter in the eye color of your parents, your partners parents, yourself, your partner and they will give you percentages of the likelihood of each color appearing in your children. Its pretty neat.... I found the only fault is that is doesn't include all the eye color categories like hazel.
http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeC...
This calculator can show you the most likely eye color your children will have http://www.genetree.com/resource/traitsP...

Anyways I found these links pretty interesting, hope this helps a bit :)

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my mother has hazel eyes and my father has blue eyes.

i have hazel eyes and my sister has blue eyes.

it's just luck of the draw!

The most likely colour is hazel as this is the stronger gene.

I dont think predictions on this would be reliable. Brown is meant to be the most dominant gene for eye colour so you would think that your baby would have your partners eye colouring as they are darker. But I have blue/green eyes, my partner is south african and has dark brown eyes and our daughter has the same eyes as me : ) You will just have to wait and see

Blue eyes are usually dominant over green...but not always. True green is very rare. If the hazel eyes are more brown than green, then the baby will probably have hazel, as brown is dominant over blue and green.

Nature can be tricky though..there are not absolutes when it comes to nature. Just "general rules." LOL!

when you mix blue and green you get a dark colour , my guess is your babies eyes will be dark brown

Genetics, isn't it wonderful?

Eye color is polygenic, this means there are several gene alleles and modifying gene alleles that effect eye color.

In humans, three genes (loci) that associated with eye color. They are currently known as: EYCL1, EYCL2, and EYCL3, as well as several other locations that effect eye color.

They used to think there were just two alleles for a single gene, which gave blue or brown eyes. The Brown allele (B) was considered dominant over the blue allele (b). This suggested that if someone had one or two Brown alleles (BB) or (Bb) they would have Brown eyes, and if they had two blue alleles (bb) they would have Blue eyes.

We now know that while these two alleles for this gene cause much of the color, there are other alleles for the same gene that give different amounts of colour. For instance there is are alleles for Grey, for Amber, for Dark Brown, for Light Brown and for Green that can be located at this gene.

There is also a gene that has different alleles, that will help determine how 'green' your eyes are.

The genes that determine skin color (and there are nine different genes all with their own alleles) can also affect eye color.

Also, the genes that determine hair color, can also affect eye color.

So, while it seems simple, that your children could have blue or hazel/green colored eyes, they could also have brown eyes.

Finally, there is one more thing that can effect the color of your child's eyes. We are all chimerias. We contain small amounts of cells that came from our mother which migrate to us while we are in the womb. These cells have been shown to go back several generations. If part of your ovary, or you partner's testicles contain these cells, your child can have completely different eye color than expected. This is something that medical science has only realised recently, from cases where women were told they couldn't have their children, as the children were different blood types than their own.

The fact these women are chimeria was verified by taking cell samples and doing genetic tests comparing their cells with their ancestor's cells.

One woman has been shown to have an ovary completely composed of her mother's cells, and the other ovary composed of her Grandmother's cells. So none of her children were 'hers' in the conventional sense but were in reality her siblings or aunts and uncles.

I hope that helps.

I'd try for orange. It's unique, and nothing would rhyme with it. If it's born with another color, feed it nothing but oranges and carrots. That would probably work.

50% of your children will have Blue eyes and 50% of your children will have hazel/green eyes.

The more dominant colour tends to take over, and the baby does take more of the mans chromosomes, possibly hazel as its more dark and dominant....

Listen to what the biologist said, but as a side note, my parents were exactly like you and your husband and I still came out with brown eyes. I wear blue contacts and they look very natural because both parents had light eyes and I got stuck with brown

Could have brown eyes
The genes we inherit from our parents determine things like eye colour and chemical makeup. This passing of characteristics from parent to child is called heredity. Our genes are made of DNA, short for deoxyribonucleic acid, which carries hereditary information. DNA is a long molecule made up of two strands that twist around each other and have an almost endless variety of chemical patterns.
If your mother has brown eyes, and your father has blue eyes, there鈥檚 a good chance you have brown eyes. That鈥檚 because the brown-eye gene is dominant, and the blue-eye gene is recessive. The dominant gene usually prevails over the recessive one. If you had blue eyes and both your parents had brown eyes, take a look at your grandparents鈥? You probably inherited a recessive blue-eye gene from both of your parents.

Ask your partner what coulor his parents eyes were. If one of them had a pair of blue eyes, then there is a definate 50/50 chance your baby will have blue eyes. Realistically your babies eyes will probably be blue or greeny, and not brown.

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They say brown eyes are the dominant colour so the chances are your baby will have brown or hazel eyes.
Doesn't always work that way though, I have hazel eyes my late husband had piercing blue, two of our children are hazel eyed, the third has blue, but not as cold as dad's.