How Do You Determine Eye Color In Infants?
Determining eye color in infants is a fun way to see how genetics works. Eye color is determined by only a few genes, but sometimes two brown-eyed or blue-eyed parents have a baby with a completely different eye color. The reason for this is that the eye colors of the parents may be heterozygous, which means they carry genes for different eye colors. The baby may inherit the recessive genes from both parents and have an unexpected eye color. Write down the eye colors of both parents and both sets of their parents. If the colors are mostly the same, there is a very high probability that your baby will have the same color. If there are many different eye colors in the family tree, your baby has a good chance at having any of these eye colors. Find a calculator online that allows you to find out the probability of your infant’s eye color inheritance. Plug into the calculator the colors of the parents’ eyes and their parents’ eyes to see the probability of your infant inheriting a certain
