Why Do Our Hair And Eye Color Change?
When babies are born, their eyes and hair are one color, but change within the first few years of their life! Why do hair and eye colors change? Trace explains ...
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You might think your hair and eye color are permanent, but in reality, they could change at ANY TIME. And it definitely already changed once. Greetings programs, Trace here for DNews. Many babies are born with blue eyes, and then their eyes change color as their genes continue to develop. Hair color is the same way, sometimes, babies are born with very light colored hair which gradually darkens. We got a few questions on this, so we did the digging! The colored part of the eye is the iris, it controls how much light is let into the eyeball and it's color is determined by melanin, just like skin and hair. Darker colors absorb more light, and lighter colors reflect more. Eye color is determined by a few different genetic factors, the most important being OCA2. OCA2 produced melanocyt...
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You might think your hair and eye color are permanent, but in reality, they could change at ANY TIME. And it definitely already changed once. Greetings programs, Trace here for DNews. Many babies are born with blue eyes, and then their eyes change color as their genes continue to develop. Hair color is the same way, sometimes, babies are born with very light colored hair which gradually darkens. We got a few questions on this, so we did the digging! The colored part of the eye is the iris, it controls how much light is let into the eyeball and it's color is determined by melanin, just like skin and hair. Darker colors absorb more light, and lighter colors reflect more. Eye color is determined by a few different genetic factors, the most important being OCA2. OCA2 produced melanocyt...
