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The inheritance of human eye colour.
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The inheritance of human eye colour * Eye colours are distinct (brown, green, blue) rather than mixed. Eye colours of children came out as pure green, blue, or brown, not as a mixture of the colours of their parents' eyes. * Eye colour acts like distinct particles are inherited - one can have the particle for green eyes or the particle for blue eyes. * Children can have different eye colours than either of their parents. This is strange, if colours can't mix. It would make sense if colours mixed and blue and green eyed parents had greenish-blue eyed children. * Brown tends to swamp out green, green tends to swamp out blue. * A parent with brown-brown genes produces only children with brown eyes, but a parent with brown-blue eyes could produce children with eye colours other than brown * Humans have several eye colour genes. Two of these genes are...
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