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1) melanin
2) carotene
3) hemoglobin
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The specialized cells that produce the pigments that contribute to skin color?
Melanocytes
How can you tell if your baby will get darker or lighter when born?
Skin colour is determined by the pigments in your skin called melanin. Skin colour is determined by at least 8 different genes in your body acting in a very complex manner. It's impossible to tell based on looking at the two parent's skin colours
What part of the skin produces the pigments that protect the skin for UV rays?
The melanocytes in the epidermis produce the pigments that protect the skin from UV rays.
Why does skin contain pigments?
To protect you from the Sun, the amount depends on your heredity.
Why do some people have the same skin colour as their parent and others skin colour different from their parent?
it depends on your gene. there are dominant and recessive gene present. and for skin colour, bright colour are dominant over dark colour. if the both the parent are bright skin colour but the children is dark skin colour. there are possibilities where the recessive gene present in one or both parent. under certain circumstances the recessive gene will show its trait instead of the dominant gene. that's why some parent skin colour is different from the childrens' skin colour
How does pigment contribute to skin color?
Melanin, Haemoglobin, and Carotene are the three pigments that contribute to skin color.
What are the three pigments for skin colour?
carotene, melanin, and hemoglobin
What causes skin colour?
pigments
What are three main elements that contribute to skin colour?
blood, carotene and melanin
What two pigments contribute to skin color?
Melanin and carotene
What are the two pigments that contribute to skin color?
Black And White. :)
The pigments melanin and what contribute to skin color?
The pigments melanin and carotene contribute to skin color. Carotene is found in foods such as carrots, sweet potatoes, apricots, spinach and broccoli.
The specialized cells that produce the pigments that contribute to skin color?
Melanocytes
Does eye color mean you see that color better?
Eye colour has nothing to do with seeing colour. The colour in your eyes comes from pigments (like those in your skin). Colour is perceived by photoreceptors in the back of your eye - these are entirely unrelated to the pigments.
What pigments contribute to skin color?
melanin and carotene Carotene Melanin The chemical is called melanin.
What is the primary and secondary function of melanisation?
The primary would be skin colour, like brown and black pigment for the colour of skin and hair is the result pigments called melanisation. The secondary would be protection from UV rays of the sun,
How can you tell if your baby will get darker or lighter when born?
Skin colour is determined by the pigments in your skin called melanin. Skin colour is determined by at least 8 different genes in your body acting in a very complex manner. It's impossible to tell based on looking at the two parent's skin colours
