{"id":405,"date":"2005-07-26T05:09:11","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T05:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/26\/EyeScreamYouScream.aspx"},"modified":"2005-07-26T05:09:11","modified_gmt":"2005-07-26T05:09:11","slug":"eye-scream-you-scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/26\/eye-scream-you-scream\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye scream, you scream&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>From high school biology I remember that blue eyes is recessive and brown eyes is dominant.&nbsp; I have blue eyes\u2026 so I have two recessive blue eye genes\u2026 should I have children, that\u2019s all I can pass on.&nbsp; If my wife had brown eyes then I\u2019d know that our children would likely have brown eyes but possibly blue.&nbsp; My education was useful up to the point I married a green-eyed lady (who here is old enough to remember Sugarloaf? Raise your hand\u2026 but don\u2019t pull anything, please).<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The other day while discussing genetics and eugenics with Imran my curiosity got the better of my and I did a search for an eye color calculator.&nbsp; My search turned up a very nice page which happens to be hosted by our local Tech Museum.&nbsp; My question has finally been answered: 66% chance for green eyes, 33% chance for blue.&nbsp; Want to know your chances?&nbsp; Make sure you know your parents\u2019 eye color, your mate\u2019s parents\u2019 eye color, your mate\u2019s eye color and your eye color then <A href=\"http:\/\/museum.thetech.org\/ugenetics\/eyeCalc\/eyecalculator.html\">go to the Tech\u2019s eye color calculator<\/A>.&nbsp; Note, if you can\u2019t remember your own eye color you\u2019re in trouble\u2026 if you can\u2019t remember your mate\u2019s eye color you\u2019re in <EM>really<\/EM> big trouble.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Now I now the odds for eye color&#8230; if I could just find out if they\u2019ll inherit her good looks or my idiocy.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><A href=\"http:\/\/museum.thetech.org\/ugenetics\/eyeCalc\/eyecalculator.html\"><IMG height=96 alt=eyeColor.gif src=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/eyeColor.gif\" width=438 border=0><\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From high school biology I remember that blue eyes is recessive and brown eyes is dominant.&nbsp; I have blue eyes\u2026 so I have two recessive blue eye genes\u2026 should I have children, that\u2019s all I can pass on.&nbsp; If my wife had brown eyes then I\u2019d know that our children would likely have brown eyes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,41,21],"tags":[96,131],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idle","category-idlelife","category-usefulsites","category-useful","tag-idlelife","tag-useful-site"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}