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i want to know that is it possible for someone to have one eye blue and the other one brown?if yes then how?
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Not only is it possible, I even know a person (a former supervisor at an old job) who had ONE eye that was half green and half blue. No joke...his left iris was a green semicircle and a blue semicircle joined together. It was creepy.
As for how that happens, my initial guess is genetic change, like a recessive epistasis, that affects the expression of eye color. There are several genes that affect eye color, so it could really be a mutation involving any of them.
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Check out David Bowie....he has two different coloured eyes, not too sure if they're brown and blue though..
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....actually, I did a quick google picture search and I'm sure that one is brown the other is blue...check out this link
http://www.mondomodels.com/01/pods/1-celebrities/bowie-01/bowie-smile-01.html
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We've covered this in a show last October featuring developmental biologist Professor Martin Raff. A guy called up the show and asked this very question about why he has one blue and one brown eye.
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/html/shows/2003.10.12.htm
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That's funny, I've got two green eyes and one brown eye! Sorry Chris, but I've been waiting for someone to type it like that.
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David Bowie has two different eye colors for a very differing reason from inheritance. When he was younger, he was punched in the eye and that caused the "blue eye" to lose pigment. He actually has the genes for 2 brown eyes.
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Hey medhavika.......I did not know that....but now I do....ta....and there I was thinking I was being all nice and helpful [
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