eli5 Eye color confuses me

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so lets say everyone in a family tree has blue eyes then the most recent generation has a baby and the baby’s eyes are green.

what causes this?

photo of my eye : https://ibb.co/5YYWW5n

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Anonymous 0 Comments

the thing is, eye color is used as the example of genetics in grade school because it’s really easy to see what eye color is and that different people each have one. So they make it a super simplified example so you have an example of what dominant and recessive genes are, but eye color is really as complicated as any other biological thing.

david Bowie has two different eye colors because someone punched him. Eye color goes way beyond one single factor (just not in 5th grade biolog)

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