Question

How can a child have blue eyes if both parents have brown eyes?

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Responses

Both parents carry the recessive allele for blue eyes.
Both parents carry the recessive allele for blue eyes.

The child's blue eyes are an acquired, not inherited, trait.
The child's blue eyes are an acquired, not inherited, trait.

Both parents carry the dominant allele for blue eyes.
Both parents carry the dominant allele for blue eyes.

The child inherited the trait from only one of the parents.

Answer 1

Both parents carry the recessive allele for blue eyes.

Explanation: Brown eye color is usually dominant (B) and blue is recessive (b). If both parents are heterozygous (Bb), a child can inherit b from each parent (bb) and have blue eyes (25% chance).