Posted by
Mike on Thursday, July 07, 2011 12:33:01 AM
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Gregor Mendel, a 19th century Czech-German monk and scientist,
discovered that certain inherited genetic traits are dominant while
others are recessive. In terms of eye color, brown is always dominant
and blue is always recessive. This means that a child may inherit the brown eye
color trait from just one parent, whereas there must be genes for blue
eyes inherited from both father and mother for a child to be born with
blue eyes. As a general rule, the child's eyes must have the same or
less amount of pigmentation than the parent having the darkest eyes, so a
child with brown eyes must have at least one parent with brown eyes.
Photographs indicate that Caylee had brown eyes, whereas Casey has blue
eyes. This means that, applying Mendel's test, Caylee's father must
have had brown eyes. Testimony at the trial pointed to Caylee's brother
Lee Anthony as possibly being Caylee's father, and indeed photos of Lee
indicate brown eyes, however, DNA paternity tests proved to be
negative. Casey's friend Lauren Gibbs told detectives that Casey had
told her that the father was "in the Army or something like that" and
later that he had died in a car crash. Two other persons thought to be
possibly Caylee's father both died in 2007, one from Massachusetts who
worked for a moving company and died in a car crash, and the other who
actually had dated Casey in 2007 before Caylee was born in 2008. George Anthony, father of Lee and Casey, has brown eyes. Casey's mother
Cindy Anthony appears in photographs to have blue eyes.