eye-colour

Maybe I'm just wildly unobservant, but I don't think I could provide details of eye-colour for all of my cousins, say, or my co-workers.

Don't You Make My Brown Eyes Blue orannia 2010

How tedious to have documented their height and eye-colour before you begin.

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010

I'm always startled by the fact that all the characters notice eye-colour.

Don't You Make My Brown Eyes Blue orannia 2010

Although it would probably eventually turn into the hair-colour or eye-colour wars.

Review: Uglies tinylittlelibrarian 2007

Although it would probably eventually turn into the hair-colour or eye-colour wars.

Archive 2007-09-01 tinylittlelibrarian 2007

Green, probably, for most eyes are green — green or grey, if green be thought uncomely for an eye-colour.

Framley Parsonage 2004

Owing to disturbing and amplifying factors only few normal characters, eye-colour for instance, have been demonstrated to follow Mendelian laws.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement] 1840-1916 1913

Green, probably, for most eyes are green -- green or grey, if green be thought uncomely for an eye-colour.

Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope 1848

Over the past decades a number of such 'eye-colour genes' have been identified, and people with different eye colour, will have a different DNA sequence at certain points in these genes.

GEN News Highlights 2009

During his fruitful collaboration with George Wells Beadle he took charge of the chemical aspects of their joint work on the genetics of eye-colour in Drosophila and, when he and Beadle decided to give up their work on Drosophila and to work instead with the fungus Neurospora crassa, it was Tatum who discovered that biotin was necessary for the successful cultivation of this fungus on simple inorganic media and thus provided these two workers with the genetic material that they needed for the work which gained them, together with Joshua Lederberg, the Nobel Prize.

Edward Tatum - Biography 1964