>I saw this on the news also. It's funny how a gene can be recessive but still be active. My daughter has blonde hair and blue eyes and I have brown eyes. However, grandparents on both sides of the family (Norwegian on mine and German on her father's), as well as many others in the family tree, are blond haired/blue eyed and that's where she inherited it from.
What happens here is that when the recessive genes are combined with dominant genes, they can remain "hidden" for several generations - until a child inherits the recessive gene from both parents.
In theory, the dominant gene will not remain hidden.
Hilmar.
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