I have hazel eyes, but my father has green eyes while my mother has brown eyes. How is this possible?

Question

Hazel eyes are often described as a mixture of brown, green, and gold, with variations in how the colors appear under different lighting conditions. Hazel eye color is the result of multiple genes interacting to produce intermediate levels of melanin in the iris. Hazel eyes result from moderate amounts of melanin, which creates a mixture of colors. The brown pigment dominates in some parts of the iris, while green and lighter shades (due to lower melanin) show through in other areas.

Most human traits, such as height, skin color, eye color and intelligence, are influenced by many genes working together. This is called polygenic inheritance, where each gene contributes a small effect.

The polygenic nature of eye color means that a child’s eye color can be influenced by the genes inherited from both parents, leading to combinations that might not fit the simple brown-dominant, blue-recessive model that most of us were taught in high school biology.

Answer 1

First thing that you should have to understand that our eye color that we have is because of genes and genes are formed from two alleles let say your father gets married to your mother and you born you are a mixture of your parents similary your eyes color is also a mixture of your parents you get one allele from your father that of green color and one from your mother that is of brown then these two alleles mix together to form one color because you can inherit both green and brown color that why you have a mixture of two that is hazel i hope you like my ans