Amber eyes?

Question:everyone in my family has either blue or green eyes with the exception of my great grandmother on my moms side and my grandfather on my dads side. can anyone explain how i got amber eyes?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: everyone in my family has either blue or green eyes with the exception of my great grandmother on my moms side and my grandfather on my dads side. can anyone explain how i got amber eyes?

In high school biology everyone learns that there are two genes for eye color, brown, which is dominant, and blue, which is recessive. You get one from each parents. If you use "B" for brown and "b" for blue, there are 4 possibilities:

BB
Bb
bB
bb

All but the last result in brown eyes. The children of #2 and #3 may have blue eyes. Children of #1 will be brown-eyed, but his/her grandchildren may be blue-eyed.

That is fine, but there are about 7 genes for eye color, and "Blue" ranges from the pale blue you see in Danes to dark blue to hazel. "Brown" ranges from the almost black you see in Asians to light brown to hazel again. If we had just "B" and "b", no one would have green, violet, grey or amber eyes

It is always possible that you are adopted or the result of a fling, but chances are, with green eyes in the family, that your family's eye color genes are rare and special.

I hear paternity tests are only $25 these days...

if both your parents have blue eyes. you HAVE to have blue eyes. no exception. if they have green/hazel/amber/brown, even if only one of your parents does, then that's normal.

if a relative on both sides has the gene for amber eyes, but your parents dont in your parents it would be recessive, but in you it could be dominant, so that is more likely what happened.

That's it! It is a combination of colors!
Brown is dominant; blue is recessive; that's about as I can go with eye colors. Recessive colors can pop up several generations down the line; probably if you can find out the eye color of each generation (parents, grandparents, great-grandparents...) you will find one or more with amber eyes.

as long as someone in your family, on both sides has amber eyes, it is normal for you to not have blue or green eyes like the rest of your family. because your parents have a recessive jean for amber eyes, and if they each have one, they but the 2 recessive jeans together and you get it.! my parents and brothers both have brown eyes, but my grandmother had blue and my aunt has blue therefore, i have to recessive jeans for blue eyes, which made my eyes blue!

I read just recently that green eye color is a variation of brown--and grey is a variation of blue. I suspect that amber is another variation of brown in that context and comes from your father's side. In my own family, my mother had blue eyes and my father, like me, had greenish-hazel ones, but my sister, who, ironically, inherited our father's color-blindness, has true brown ones.

I think it often happens. One of my cousins has green eyes, but his father has brown eyes and hois mother black eyes. His elder brother has black eyes. So its natural.
I dont think Blue eyes are a Must for you.

TW K

your either adopted or colorblind. there a 50% of green and a 50% chance of blue and a 0% of brown eyes