Question: A man with blue eyes (B/b) and black hair (H/h) marries a woman with black eyes and and brown hair. A year later they have a child. The child has blue eyes and black hair. If black eyes are dominant over blue eyes and black hair is dominant over brown hair, then which of the following options correctly predicts the genotype of child?

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