Hair and eye color and genetics?

My father is white, with green eyes and my mother is Native American, dark brown eyes. I thought when one parent has light eyes and one has brown, their child would have brown eyes because brown eyes are the dominant gene. But I have blue/green eyes. What about hair? My dad has blonde hair and my mom's is of course black. Mine is red. I look more like my dad I would say, but I have my mom's facial features. I just have really fair skin and light eyes, not at all like my mom. And don't say I'm adopted 'cause I'm positive I'm not. Why do I not have any of my mom's pigmentation?Hair and eye color and genetics?
It is rare, but it seems both of your parents carry a recessive gene for red hair, and your mother has a recessive gene for blue/green eyes. Just because your parents traits are one color, doesn't mean they can't carry another hidden (recessive) one, which they gave to youHair and eye color and genetics?
Two possibilities:





1. Your mom is a carrier of recessive genes for hair and eye color. This means that your mom had a white ancestor somewhere in her lineage.





2. Not likely but since you have both red hair and light eyes you cold have a mutation that effects the production of various pigments. This is because light eyes and red hair are actually the result of a lack of or low levels of pigment expression. In your case with red hair and light eyes it is possible that the gene that codes for melanin could be defective.
In high school biology you are taught that dark colors outweigh light colors. However, this is an extraordinarily simplified version of genetics. In reality, genes can be turned off or turned on in many many different combinations. What you look like depends on which genes you inherit from mom and dad AND which ones are turned on or ';expressed.';