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Old 01-31-2008, 11:00 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by peter12 View Post
Blue eyes is a recessive gene. It needs someone with the same recessive gene in order to have offspring that also have blue eyes. Mendel and all that shebang.
If I remember my biology.. you can get blue eyes in a child even if only one parent has them... so long as the other one has it in their genes (ie: one of their parents has them).

Something like: rr + Dr can equal rr or Dr

(dominant recessive = brown, double recessive = blue)
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