A U.S. state (abbreviation of United States state) is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the
exists and is an alternate of . The sequence of DNA bases (thymine, cytosine, adenine, and guanine) code for specific traits. The number of and which alleles you have (coded for my the DNA=genes) will determine traits such as eye color.
What Determines Eye Color? Most of us were taught in high school science class that we inherit our eye color from our parents, and that brown eye color is dominant and blue is recessive (so two parents with blue eyes cannot have a child with brown eyes because neither parent carries the dominant form of the gene for brown eyes).