After learning that you get your traits from your parents, a student is convinced he is adopted because both of his parents have brown eyes (dominant trait), but he has blue eyes (recessive trait). how it is possible that he is a biological child of his parents?

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Sarah

Biology

14 September, 09:10

After learning that you get your traits from your parents, a student is convinced he is adopted because both of his parents have brown eyes (dominant trait), but he has blue eyes (recessive trait). how it is possible that he is a biological child of his parents?

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Liliana Riley · Answer 1

It is likely his grandparents had blue eyes, if his parents had traits for both and blue is recessive, then there's a 25% one of their children would have blue eyes