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What type of inheritance pattern best describes how skin color is determined?
The melanocortin 1 receptor is primarily responsible for skin color.
Which is an environmental factors that affects skin color in humans?
Sunlight (sun's UV radiation) is the major environmental factor that affects skin color in humans. Skin pigmentation (melanin) is responsible for skin color and it evolves primarily to regulate the amount of ultraviolet radiation penetrating the skin.
What cells produce the pigment is skin?
The skin contains different cells and tissues. For instance, it contains specialized cells called the melanocytes that produce melanin. Melanin is responsible for giving the skin its color.
What is is a polygenetic trait?
A collection of paired genes is responsible for a polygenetic trait. Height, skin colour etc. are examples.
Who is most likely to be affected by color blindness?
alot more boys are colour blind than girls
Is hemoglobin mostly responsible for the skin color of Caucasians?
Yes it is! And Melanin is responsible for the skin of dark-skinned people.
What do Caucasians have on their skin?
White
The pigment that is largely responsible for skin color is?
Melanin produces skin color.
The cells responsible for skin color are?
Melanin
Melanoma is a form of skin cancer that arises form melanocytes Melanoma is most common in Caucasians Why do Caucasians have a greater incidence of melanoma?
Their skin is lighter and more UV rays enter the skin.
What type of inheritance pattern best describes how skin color is determined?
The melanocortin 1 receptor is primarily responsible for skin color.
Most responsible for the skin color of dark skinned people?
melanin
Are Arabs Caucasian Asian or Negroid?
The term "Caucasian" generally refers to people of European descent, while "Negroid" is an outdated and offensive classification based on physical characteristics. Arabs are typically classified as part of the Caucasoid racial group, along with Europeans. They are not usually categorized as Asian or Negroid.
Is color blindness more prevalent in caucasians?
yes it is
The pigment melanin and contribute to skin color?
melanin is mainly responsible for the color of skin number of melanin decide the color more the number more darker skin it protect from the sun rays and other foreign substance in white skin less melanin is there
Why is skin black?
Every single person is born with a substance in their bodies called melanin. Some people lack this substance, so they are considered albinos. Caucasians ,however, have had this skin color since their ancestors arrived. It is inherited from parent to child.
What is the major color group that died in World War 2?
Caucasians
