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What pigment determine skin color?
The pigment which determines skin color is melanin.
What brown pigment determints skin colors?
What brown pigment determines skin color
What is the medical term meaning black pigment that determines one's skin color?
melanin
What is in your skin that determines your skin colour?
Original Answer:(pigment. darker colored skin has more pigment) The color of your skin is determined by the amount of melanin given to you by your parents (genetics). It is found in the epidermis.
Darkening chemical in skin that determines skin color?
Hormones have nothing to do with human skin color. Melanin, a pigment, determines skin color by the amount of it present in the skin. The more melanin, the darker the skin.
How can you change your skin from black to white?
Can not be done. Skin color is the result of several things. DNA determines eye, hair, and skin color as well as other things. Melanin pigment produces skin color and freckles. The less melanin the whiter the skin. You can not change it. Be proud of who you are.
What causes skin color?
the pigment in your skin
Variation in human skin color is an example of what?
Skin color is a polygenic trait. A polygenic trait is one that is controlled by multiple genes. Each gene for skin color deposits no pigment, some pigment, or lots of pigment. The additive effect of the deposited pigment from each gene for skin color results in a whole spectrum (continuum) of color. Also, skin color is affected by the environment, which further increases the variation in human skin color.
Why is my skin colored?
Heritity dictates your skin color melanin is what makes the pigment(color)
What does it mean if your body does not produce the pigment melanin?
First of all, pigment melanin is the thing that determines our skin colour (the less pigment melanin, the lighter the skin). So if a body stops making pigment melanin it would mean that your skin cannot get any darker.
The pigment that is largely responsible for skin color is?
Melanin produces skin color.
What determines th color of th skin?
The color of skin is primarily determined by the amount of the pigment melanin produced by specialized cells called melanocytes in the skin. The more melanin produced, the darker the skin appears. Various factors such as genetics, sun exposure, and hormonal changes can influence melanin production and thus affect skin color.
