.....how can I have green eyes with brown centers? No I don't mean the iris (duh!). I literally have dark chocolate brown rings around the iris that then fan out into green eyes.
Even more puzzling, my eyes used to be completely brown. They changed to green when I was 13 years old.
How does this happen?
2006-09-17 15:34:47 · 11 answers · asked by Marianne not Ginger™ 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Eye color changes with age and with disease. The iris of your eye has pigments, and since the eye doesn't continuously produce them like your skin does, the degredation of those pigments or increase of pigments will change the eye color.
Typically, eyes get lighter with age (sometimes they get darker) and eye pigments will change if you're not getting enough vitamins to support eye health.
2006-09-17 15:50:33 · answer #1 · answered by Protagonist 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Certain traits like coat patterns on cats or eyeballs and a bunch of other things rely on multiple genes. I'm going to totally screw this up but if there's say two genes for eyes and we call E brown, e blue and e' green you might have gotten something like e'e'EE and that would dictate that the center of your eyes are brown and the outer ring is green. Since you got both recessive for outer ring that may be why it's green. This is not to say that this is how it actually works, but this is how it potentially *could* work.
2006-09-18 13:59:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mmmm. That is puzzling. Must be the jeans you wear like everyone else says. My eyes are different colors when I wear different jean colors too. I literally have different eye color for each mood- so I'm told. I've actually been feared because my eyes turned yellow. Explain that one to me when you figure all this out.
Right now, they're a deep turquoise blue with green lining my iris. I hear that's a good thing.
2006-09-19 00:35:56 · answer #3 · answered by Antny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your eyes turned green? Were you going through a period when you were extremely envious? My wife has brown eyes. I have blue green eyes with brown spots. My daughter has light green eyes and my son's eyes are hazel. Genetics is just a crap shoot. The good thing about your eyes is that it sets you apart from people with monochromatic colored eyes. It is unusual for your eyes to change color at thirteen, though. I have never heard of that happening. You are unique in many ways. As for Ali and his money, I think you can keep it. He won't miss it. I hear he's loaded.
2006-09-18 04:02:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not so simple. Several different genes seem to determine eye color. Some of these at strictly dominant/recessive while others seem to follow different rules.
The more study that is done with eye color (and how different areas seem to be controlled by different genes), the more complex the topic becomes. Diet may also play a role.
You might get some new information from some of the sites below:
2006-09-17 22:40:12 · answer #5 · answered by Richard 7 · 10⤊ 1⤋
You have been around too much money. Boy, that makes my blue eyes green.
2006-09-18 09:04:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People say dominant or recessive about eye color as a figurative example. Literally it is not so but rather a combination of many different genes that can produce an endless combination of different colors and blends..................
2006-09-17 22:38:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Did you cry the brown out? (thirteen is a tough age)
2006-09-18 12:50:44 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Got me, but it does explain why you're the leader of the Weirdo Cytology Society.
2006-09-18 09:25:53 · answer #9 · answered by gotalife 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
certain genes for you eyes have kicked in
2006-09-17 22:37:54 · answer #10 · answered by sandyclaws08 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋