A person whose body cannot produce pigment, or coloring matter, in its organs is called an albino. Albinism is most easily recognized in the skin, hair, and eyes. True albinos have very pale white skin, white hair, and pink eyes. An albino’s eyes show up as pink because the tiny red blood vessels in the iris, or colored part of the eye, show through. In normal people, the colored iris hides this pinkness.
Albinism is usually inherited from one’s parents, but it can also be caused by a change in the genes, the tiny chemical particles that carry traits from parents to children.
Albinism can occur in animals too. White mice and white rabbits with pink eyes are true albinos. White gorillas and some white horses are albinos too.
The San Blas Indians, who live on islands off the coast of Panama in Central America, have the highest proportion of albino births in the world, 7 out of every 1,000 births. This has created the myth of a tribe of “White Indians”!
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‘true’ albinos do not always have pink eyes. and their are any different kinds of albinism, some of which only affect the eyes. Albinos have pale blue or slate grey eyes usually. Also, Albinos need a gene from BOTH parents to inherit the disorder, seeing as the gene for albinism is recessive, meaning a person would need two copies of the gene (one from each parent.) Once again, pink eyes is not a characteristic of a ‘true’ albino, in fact, pink eyes are less common in albinos than blue, hazel, or slate grey eyes.
ur rong it is pink
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Well i am albino and you are wrong not albinos have pink eyes. i am albino and i have blue eyes. and i have some pigment that i can have a little bit of a tan on me. but albinos tend to burn in the sun because of the less pigment. and yes you are right you must have a gene from BOTH parents to receive it. Just ask me a True albino person here.
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