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To: sweetliberty
Thats genetically impossible seeing as how blue eyes are a recessive trait and unless both parents had white parents it would be absolutely impossible. Your neighbor either adopted or had an affair AND would have had to have had a white parent.
64 posted on 11/19/2003 9:01:24 AM PST by richtig_faust
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To: richtig_faust
Blue eyes are a recessive trait and both parents would have to carry it. I realize that.
79 posted on 11/19/2003 9:51:19 AM PST by sweetliberty ("Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.")
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To: richtig_faust; sweetliberty
Thats genetically impossible seeing as how blue eyes are a recessive trait and unless both parents had white parents it would be absolutely impossible.

Not quite, because blues eyes are recessive it is possible for brown-eyed people to carry the gene. But to have blue eyed offspring *both* parents need to carry the gene (ie have some ancestry - not not necessarily immediate parent)

What is impossible is for two blue-eyed parents to have offspring with dark eyes.

102 posted on 11/19/2003 12:40:48 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (You realize, of course, this means war?" B Bunny)
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