Question

In a flock of sheep there are animals with brown fleece and brown eyes and others with white fleece and blue eyes. There are no animals with white fleece and brown eyes or with brown fleece and blue eyes. What can you conclude about the genes for fleece color and eye color

Answer 1

In general, children inherit their eye color from their parents, a combination of the eye colors of Mom and Dad. A baby's eye color is determined by the parents' eye color and whether the parents' genes are dominant genes or recessive genes.

A lamb inherits 2 genes for color, one from each parent. This color gene causes the pigment named eumelanin to be produced in the cells of the wool follicles. This pigment produces the basic black or brown color of the Icelandic sheep.