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What determines the texture of hair?
The thickness and curliness varies by color (diameter) and by the melanin content (pigment).
What pigment determine skin color?
The pigment which determines skin color is melanin.
What determines hair color?
Melanin determines your hair color.
What brown pigment determints skin colors?
What brown pigment determines skin color
What is the source of pigment in hair?
Melanin is the source that determines the pigment in your hair. Usually, melanin is a hereditary trait. For example, if both of your parents have darker hair, then you were also probably born with darker hair as well.
What makes a cow white?
The breed characteristic and the pigment in the hair determines the hair colour.
Why is your hair color they color it is?
Hair color is caused by the pigments in your body. The less pigment you have the lighter your hair. Less pigment also means you will have lighter skin that is why people who have darker skin have darker natural hair usually and why people with lighter skin have lighter hair. the amount of pigment you have depends on who your parents are. If your parents have more pigment you will probably have more pigment and if your parents have less pigment you will probably have less. Hope this helps! :)
What is the pigment in the hair?
Melanin is the source that determines the pigment in your hair. Usually, melanin is a hereditary trait. For example, if both of your parents have darker hair, then you were also probably born with darker hair as well.
What pigment gives skin and hair color?
Melanin
What gives skin and hair their coloring?
Melanin is the color pigment that is produced in the skin and hair and it gives them their color.
What is the medical term meaning black pigment that determines one's skin color?
melanin
How do you inherit your hair color?
A persons pigment called melanin gives the skin and hair it's color. In hair melanin is found in the cortex which is the hair second layer. Genes in a human body determines the number of melanocytes in the hair and the type of melanin it produces. The size and type of melanosomes will determine the natural color of the hair. There are two types of melanin, eumelanin(brown/black) and pheomelanin (red).
