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This is fun! I have so many questions about genetics.
But just to start, I am wondering if there are dominant and recessive genes in cats for eye colour, as in humans. I know that for people, blue eyes are recessive, brown eyes dominant, but wondered if the cat eye colour genes are as clearly defined.
My cat is grey/blue/silver, with bright green eyes, and I wonder if this is because he has a large component of russian blue in him, or if these colours/ combinations are just the dominants, so a "mutt" would have them just by chance.
But just to start, I am wondering if there are dominant and recessive genes in cats for eye colour, as in humans. I know that for people, blue eyes are recessive, brown eyes dominant, but wondered if the cat eye colour genes are as clearly defined.
My cat is grey/blue/silver, with bright green eyes, and I wonder if this is because he has a large component of russian blue in him, or if these colours/ combinations are just the dominants, so a "mutt" would have them just by chance.