blonde hair and brown eyes is it even a genetic possiblity

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#168
Heath ledger had brown eyes n blond hair :)

What's more intriguing is people with dark brown/black hair and blue/green eyes.
My dad is very dark haired and blue eyed. He's Swedish/English

Too bad I didn't inherit that combo. However, I do have light brown hair that's lighter than both parents and light brown eyes (mother is korean with dark black hair/dark Brown eyes)
 
#172
Just read through this thread. It's all very interesting. I had a friend at school who had blonde hair and brown eyes and a couple of her siblings have the same combination.

Genetics can be so fun.

For example:

My mother has tan skin, blonde hair, blue eyes.

My father has pale skin, black hair, blue eyes.

I have pale skin, blonde hair, blue eyes.

My sister has tan skin, red hair, blue eyes.
 
#173
Dark eyes and light hair is such a pretty combo! I think it's clear from this thread that the combination is definitely possible, but here's why it's so rare: although hair color and eye color are determined by different genes, these two genes are located VERY close together on the same chromosome! So the hair color gene and the eye color gene are often inherited together (as something called a haplotype). This is why someone with light hair is likely to also have light eyes, and someone with dark hair is likely to have dark eyes. BUT, sometimes, recombination occurs in the small length of DNA between the eye color gene and the hair color gene, and that is where we get the light hair/dark eyes or dark hair/light eyes combos! cool, huh?
 
#176
Anything is possible.. It's all in the genes of the parents and the family line... My DD is blonder then blonde with hazel eyes and my son is a fiery red head with big brown eyes.. They don't even look like siblings!!
 
#178
Brown eyed red heads are more common then you think... My family is all brown eyed red heads (myself and son included). I am Northern Italian. DH is Norwegain so I guess that's where my blonde hazel eyed DD beauty came from
;)
 
#180
I am another one.

My hair is lightened but you can see about an inch of natural roots. Lol. I was practically tow headed as a child but now my hair is sort of a dark honey blond. My sister has the exact same coloring.

Our mom has olive skin and dark brown hair and eyes. Our father has pale skin, black hair, and blue-green eyes. :shrugs::shrugs::shrugs:

Genetics are amazing!!!!
 

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