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What does ultraviolet radiation from the sun do to the skin and cells?
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What is the danger of ultraviolet's radiation?
Ultraviolet Radiation, with prolonged contact with the skin, can later in life cauuse skin cancer
What factor that contributes to cancer increases with exposure to the sun?
A person's chances of getting skin cancer can increase as a result of exposure to the sun due to the ultraviolet rays of the sun damaging the genetic material in the person's skin cells.
Skin cancer can be caused by too much exposure to what?
Ultraviolet radiation that comes from the sun.
What is sun burns?
Sun burn is a burn to living tissue such as skin produced by overexposure to ultraviolet, radiation, commonly from the sun's rays.
What is sunburns?
A burn on the skin caused by excessive exposure to the sun or other sources of ultraviolet-A and -B radiation.
What are facts about sunscreen?
Sunscreens are products combining several ingredients that help prevent the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation from reaching the skin. Two types of ultraviolet radiation, UVA and UVB, damage the skin, age it prematurely, and increase your risk of skin cancer.
Ultraviolet radiation can cause mutations in the DNA of skin cells that have been overexposed to the sun This mutated DNA has no effect on future offspring because?
Mutations may occur in the rna codons
Where is ultraviolet radiation coming from?
The Sun.
What is melanin and what does it determine?
Melanin shields the nucleus from damage by ultraviolet radiation. It keeps this radiation from damaging the skin and DNA. It also gives color to your skin, hair, and irises. Melanin is a pigment which gives characteristic color to skin. Its main role is to absorb harmful UV radiations and protect our skin cells from damage. It determines the color of your skin. Melanin colors hair, skin, eyes, feathers, etc.
What type of electomagnetic radiation do you use in sun beds?
Ultraviolet radiation
What form of radiation can be shielded by the earth's atmosphere?
The form of radiation shielded by atmosphere is Ultraviolet. The Ultraviolet is a part of radiation released by our star sun.
How does the environment and lifestyle factors affect the condition of the skin?
Wind, rain, ultraviolet radiation from the sun, smoking, sleep, stress, alcohol can all affect the skin.
