Yes, eye colour is an example of multiple alleles.
They are more than two alleles encoding for the same. In multiple allelism, different forms of the same gene exist in a population. Such three or more variants for the same gene are referred to as multiple alleles. There are 2 major eye colour genes and 14 more genes determining the expression of this phenotype. A carried number of alleles contribute to each colour which is found to be X-linked.
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