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How can 2 parent with blue eyes have 8 children and only half have blue eyes?

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How can 2 parent with blue eyes have 8 children and only half have blue eyes?

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I’m going to have to go with Psychodelic Chicken here, T doesn’t have a clue what she’s talking about. However real life genetics is also far more complicated than what Psychodelic Chicken suggests. I’m going to try and make it simple here and I’m going to explain exactly how contrary to popular belief, it IS in fact POSSIBLE for two blue eyed parents to produce green AND BROWN EYED children. Now T, that whole dominant and recessive thing you’ve just explained in your post about blue eyed parents only being able to produce blue eyed children, now I’m assuming you learned that in high school biology, correct? The fact is is that real life inheritance and genetics is far too complicated to teach in Biology so it’s simplified to make it easier, it’s simplified to what you’ve just described. Now this is fine until people start believing that this is the way genetics really works, which is what T has done. Then, when two blue-eyed parents have a brown-eyed child, they sometimes begin to sus

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