• Question: What determines eye colour ?

    Asked by Alice H to Tatiana, Priya, Natt, Dwaine, Andy on 25 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by 860heac37.
    • Photo: Andrew Scott

      Andrew Scott answered on 25 Jun 2015:

      It’s encoded in your genes so you inherit it from your parents. There are quite a few different genes involved though so it’s not as simple as ‘my dad has green eyes, so my eyes are green’.

      Interestingly (for me at least), your eyes don’t actually have any blue, brown or green pigment in them. The colour is actually an optical illusion.

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