If one parent has brown eyes, and the child has a recessive allele for blue eyes from both parents, what is likely to happen?
A) The child will have brown eyes.
B) The child will have green eyes.
C) The child will have blue eyes.
D) The child will have either brown eyes or blue eyes.

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For a child to have blue eyes, they must inherit a recessive allele from both parents. Since the child has a recessive allele for blue eyes from both parents, they will express the blue eye trait, as brown is typically dominant and requires only one allele to be expressed, but in this case, the child did not inherit a dominant brown allele.

If One Parent Has Brown Eyes, and the Child Has