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Blue eyes on a kid with 2 brown eyed parents. how is this possible?
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Easy one: Brown gene dominates over blue so parents only need one of 2 genes to be brown.Blue eyed infants must get one blue gene from both parents, so in this case both parents carry one blue gene. Nothing spooky here, just basic genetics.
Answered 12/28/2013
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