Genetics of eye color
This was interesting to me:
Genetics of eye color
The old standby in undergraduate classes is a problem involving blue-eyed and brown-eyed people. It requires everyone to pretend that the world is made up of blue-eyed and brown-eyed folks, and if a student braves the question, "What about green and grey and greenish-brown etc. etc. ?", we say "Just pretend it's this way." As the brown-eyed child of hazel + pale green, I always wondered how the inheritance worked. This article helps a little, though I think I need to pursue it further. I am surprised that it's only two loci - the reality is simpler than I suspected.
- posted by Diane @ 11:19 AM