• Question: Why do we have different colour eyes?

    Asked by ep to Claire, Liad, Ruth, Ryan, Mako on 16 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Ruth Elderfield

      Ruth Elderfield answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      It depends on how much Melanin pigment you have in your eyes. If you have a lot, you are likely to have brown eyes, less green and very little blue. How the pigment is spread around the iris can change how the colour is seen too, giving more variety to the colours.

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