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What is the name for the tough, waterproof protein found in skin, hair, and nails?
Aidan Miller
Keratin
Garland Schimmel
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What is the name for the tough waterproof protein found in skin hair and nails.?
Keratin.
What is the name for the tough waterproof found in skin hair and nails?
Keratin
What protein is found in the skin hair and nails?
Nails are made of up the protein called keratin, which is a tough and insoluble structual protein. It is basically dead skin cells.
What is the name for the tough waterproof protein found in skin ha?
keratin
The tough protein found in the skin that increases durability is?
Keratin- fibrous protein that makes up human skin, nails, hair etc.
What proteins are found in the epidermis or dermis?
Keratin is the tough, waterproof protein abundant in the stratum corneum, the outermost layer of the epidermis.
What is a tough structural protein that gives strength to nails hair and skin?
iron
What protein in skin makes it tough and waterproof?
Keratin is the protein that strengthens and waterproofs the epidermal layer of the skin.
What is the protein found in the epidermis that is responsible for toughening the skin?
This is found in the stratum corneum (horny layer), the most most superficial layer which are dead cells filled with keratin. They form a waterproof barrier and make it tough.
What does it mean to be as tough as nails?
Nails are made of iron. If you are as tough as iron then you are really tough.
Horses' hoofs birds' beaks and your nails are all made of what?
Horse hooves are made of a tough protein called keratin – the same stuff our nails and hair are made of. Answer By: BlueHorse211
What is a tough waterproof material found in the upper layers of some examples of stratified squamous epithelium?
Squamous cells.
