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What pigment prevents the radiation from harming structures in the under layer of the skin?
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What are the tiny structures in a plant cell that absorbs energy in the sunlight?
Chloroplasts, which contain the green pigment chlorophyll.
What is a pigment that traps uv radiation?
This pigment, residing in the chloroplasts, is called chlorophyll.
What is the green pigment in chloroplast?
Chlorophyll, it's crucial in photosynthesis, allowing plants to absorb the sun's energy.
What creates melanin?
Melanin is a pigment that can be found pretty much anywhere except in spiders. So most animals with pigmentation create melanin in their bodies.
What are the green structures in plant cells that contains the green pigment chlorophyll?
They are called chloroplasts.They directs the photosynthesis.
What is the pigment in the skin that prevents sunburns?
The pigment is called melanin, and it gives some protection from the sun, but can't totally prevent sunburns.
What is the cell pigment that colors skin and protects it from solar radiation?
melanin
The middle coat of the eyeball that contains pigment which prevents light from scattering in the eyeball is?
Choriod
What kind of radiation produces tans by releasing the pigment melanin into the skin's cells?
uv
What is the pigment called the protects the body from UV radiation and gives its skin color?
melanin
What is the pigment called that protects the body from uv radiation and gives it skin-color?
melanin
What structures within the leaf contains all the major organs?
Chlorophy. The green pigment of the plants.
How did Black people get around?
They are black because of the intense solar radiation in the equatorial regions in Africa. The presence of the dark pigment melanin prevents skin damage in that environment. The black people around the world (and especially Latin America) are descendants of Africans and similar equatorial races.
What are the tiny structures in a plant cell that absorbs energy in the sunlight?
Chloroplasts, which contain the green pigment chlorophyll.
What is a pigment that traps uv radiation?
This pigment, residing in the chloroplasts, is called chlorophyll.
Why does the skin tan in the sun?
It's a defence mechanism against the Sun's harmful UV radiation, using the pigment melanin.
What is melanin and why is it important?
Melanin is a pigment that gives skin its color and is released when sun touches the skin :)
