CENTRAL HETEROCHROMIA
This type of Heterochromia is the most common out of all the different types!
Central heterochromia is distinguished by having a different color around the pupil, called the pupillary zone, and having a differentiating color in the ciliary zone, which is the area surrounding the hue of the pupillary zone. This results in having two contrasting colors in a single eye, but in most cases affect both eyes of one person. People with decreased amounts of melanin in the iris are highly prone to having Central heterochromia.
Eye color is based of off the main pigment of melanin that has been distributed and established inside the tissues of an iris. Melanin is produced by eye cells known as 'melanocytes'. Scientists are still unsure of the exact procedures that determine eye color, but like all other physical characteristics of living things, eye color is factually identified as a hereditary trait passed on from parents to offspring and is influenced by an array of multiple genes from past generations.
The iris of the human eye generates only three true colors that will greatly affect the external presence of the eye. Although the top three colors that may first come into mind are brown, blue, and green, the correct combination are actually yellow, brown, and grey! This trio of pigments will dictate the outcome of ones eye derived from how much of each color one will produce.
Central heterochromia is distinguished by having a different color around the pupil, called the pupillary zone, and having a differentiating color in the ciliary zone, which is the area surrounding the hue of the pupillary zone. This results in having two contrasting colors in a single eye, but in most cases affect both eyes of one person. People with decreased amounts of melanin in the iris are highly prone to having Central heterochromia.
Eye color is based of off the main pigment of melanin that has been distributed and established inside the tissues of an iris. Melanin is produced by eye cells known as 'melanocytes'. Scientists are still unsure of the exact procedures that determine eye color, but like all other physical characteristics of living things, eye color is factually identified as a hereditary trait passed on from parents to offspring and is influenced by an array of multiple genes from past generations.
The iris of the human eye generates only three true colors that will greatly affect the external presence of the eye. Although the top three colors that may first come into mind are brown, blue, and green, the correct combination are actually yellow, brown, and grey! This trio of pigments will dictate the outcome of ones eye derived from how much of each color one will produce.