Everyone has genes for eye color, but variations in the coding sequence of these genes allow for a variety of eye colors in a population. The term to best describe this variation in coding sequences is ____.
A) independent assortment
B) allelic segregation
C) heritability
D) polymorphism

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Polymorphism refers to the occurrence of two or more distinct forms of a gene within a population, which in this context explains the variation in eye color coding sequences.

Everyone Has Genes for Eye Color, but Variations in the Coding