The point of having a total different eye colour from the 'regular' eye colour is an absolute thrill, let alone having a set of total different eyes! You get what I mean? How can I think of someone whose eyes are of complete variation or a combination of both! Surely, such idea can't be contained in a small box, it sounds like a mystery.
Most people on Earth are born with Heterochromia, a condition which symbolizes the experience of having multi-coloured eyes; and the people with these kinds of conditions are referred to as.... The difference could be as both eyes having their distinct colours(as in having a total blue on one eye and a total grey on the other); to having a combination of both blue and grey on each eye! Wow, that's alot to take in! Well, it exists. This condition is normally seen amongst those with a variation in the amount of melanin. That is, for a person's eyes to be different from the 'regular' brown eye colour, there must have been an alteration in the person's genes; for an eye's colour is closely linked to quantity of melanin present in the dorsal layers of the Iris.
Is it genetically transmitted from mother to offfspring, you may ask? Yes, it is genetically inherented. It could be inherented from either the mother or father of the offspring, or from both. You see, when a woman becomes pregnant through the 'usual' fertilization process, the lady donates 23 number of chromosomes to the child, while her partner donates same amount as hers; making it a total of 46 chromosomes. In that very process, a man who has a brown eye colour(for example) donates his gene/trait, and the woman would also donate her green eye colour. At the end of the gestation period and the child is birthed, such child can appear to have a set of different eye colour (as in having a green on one eye and a brown colour on the other); or a could have a combination of both which is known as an 'hazel eyes'- which is a colour that consists of a touch of brown and green but, can also have a dominant 'golden' colour.
An image showing an hazel eye color.
By the way, the chromosome responsible for this whole 'drama' is the 15th chromosome in every human person. The 15th chromosome is responsible for determining the eye colour in as much as the variations in the amount of melanin in the front layers of the Iris do. Thus, the difference in the copies gotten from each parent cause this variation.
An image showing the 15th chromosome of the human body.
In the end, every eye colour is unique; its all depends on if you are proud of yours. Though, I've always dreamt of having a set of ocean blue eyes.
However😂, here's the colour of my own eye (its looking like pure black from afar. But remember that there's no such thing as a black eye colour but brown when seen up close). I'm proud of mine regardless; but would love to see photographs of yours in the comment section, be it brown, blue, hazel or grey.
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~Uc.