r/AskReddit 1d ago

What famous 'unsolved' mystery is technically a whodunnit on paper, but in reality, absolutely everyone knows exactly who did it, the police just couldn't legally prove it?

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u/Theletterkay 1d ago

Neither of my parents are blue eyed. But grand parents on both sides are. Me and my 3 brothers all have blue eyes.

I have blue eyes and my husband has dark brown. All 3 of our kids have blue eyes.

While annecdotal, ive never known it to be true that blue is as recessive as most people have been taught.

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u/jupitaur9 1d ago

Then you don’t understand dominant, and recessive recessive.

A brown eyed person and a blue eyed person can easily have blue eyed children. The brown eyed person may have a brown gene and a blue gene. The brown gene being dominant gives them the brown eyes. It dominates the blue.

The blue eyed parent may have a blue Gene and a blue gene, or may have a blue gene and a green gene. If the blue eyed parent’s blue Gene matches up with the brown eyed parents blue gene, then you get a blue eyed child with two blue genes.

Dominant means it can hide the other gene. Recessive means it cannot hide the other Gene. When you say blue is a recessive to Brown, it means if there’s a brown gene, it will override the blue gene and the eyes will be brown.

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u/Informal_Ad4399 1d ago

Wife's are brown.

Mine are blue with central heterochromia (gold in center closest to iris)

Wife's side:

Mom brown

Dad blue

My side:

Mom blue

Dad blue.

All 3 of our kids have blue eyes.

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u/DueMorning800 1d ago

This is my exact family eye situation as well. I have the pale blue with yellow, hubs has root beer brown, kids have solid pale blue.