what is melanin?

Question

i guess i have none is that why i get sunburned?

Answer 1

Melanin is the pigmentation in your skin. Even if you are Caucasian, you still have it; just not as much as someone who is darker in complexion.

Answer 2

Melanin is a dark or black pigment of body.

Skin is colored by a substance called melanin. Melanin protects our skin from harmful sun rays. Everyone has melanin in their skin. People with dark skin have melanin that is very active. People with light skin have melanin that is not very active. If you go in the sun a lot the melanin gets more active and your skin turns darker.

Answer 3

Melanin also pigments your hair. When you melanin nodule decides to quit working, the entire shaft of that hair turns gray in a matter of days.

Answer 4

Melanin is the main determinant of human skin colour.

Answer 5

It is a chemical in your skin that makes it darker. The more melanin you have, the darker your skin tone will be. You can't get more of it, it's genetic and comes from your parents. Lighter skin is more prone to sunburn, but people with dark skin can sunburn too.

Answer 6

any of a class of insoluble pigments, found in all forms of animal life, that account for the dark color of skin, hair, fur, scales, feathers, etc.
Any of a group of naturally occurring dark pigments, especially the pigment found in skin, hair, fur, and feathers.

as far as i know, everyone has melanin, just people have certian amounts of it in our skin. thats why there are so many different colors of skin.
and as for you getting sunburned, do you use sun block? even though people use it, we may still get sunburned.

Answer 7

Melanin is what gives skin its color or lack of the less you have then the less color you have and vice vesa. God bless

Answer 8

a substance that gives the skin its color (also called pigment)

The pigments that give color to the skin and hair. The greater the amount of melanin the darker the hair. They usually decrease with age, resulting in gray or white hair.

pigment granules in the skin that give skin its color.

(MEL-a-nin): A skin pigment (substance that gives the skin its color). Dark-skinned people have more melanin than light-skinned people.

The pigment produced by the body that gives skin and irises (the colored portion of the eye) their color. Melanin also helps protect the skin from the sun's damaging rays.

Pigment, as typically produced by specialised epidermal cells called melanocytes.

the substance which gives color to the eyes and protects the macula by trapping light rays.

The substance that gives color to skin and eyes.

A brown pigment produced by pigment producing skin cells (melanocytes). Increased amount of melanin pigment results in a tanned hue following exposure to ultraviolet light.

pigment in the skin that becomes darker when oxidised under the effect of ultraviolet radiation.

Dark brown/black shapeless pigments found in melanotic tumours, the hair, skin, part of the brain and the choroid coat of the eye.

Pigments causing darkness in skin, hair, feathers, etc. They are irregular polymeric structures and are divided into three groups: allomelanins in the plant kingdom and eumelanins and phaeomelanins in the animal kingdom

The pigment that gives color to the skin, hair, and parts of the eye, and provides protection against the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation.

Melanin is the dark pigment in hair and skin.

Substance manufactured in specialized cells in the lower layers of the epidermis (outer skin layer); melanin cells in dark skin produce more melanin than do those in light skin.

a dark pigment found in the skin, retina and hair.

The dark pigment deposited in the bird’s feathers. There are two types of melanin. Eumelanins impart black and dark brown and phaeomelanins that impart lighter brown and yellow to the feathers (Ralph, 1969).

which occurs naturally in the skin (it gives skin and hair its color). There are two types of melanin in hair: eumelanin (which gives hair brown or black color) and pheomelanin (which gives hair blonde or red color).

Pigment in skin which determines skin and coat color. Melanin is found in two chemically different forms: eumelanin (which produces brown and black) and phaeomelanin (which produces yellow and red).

The pigment largely responsible for human skin color

pigment granules, usually black, derived from indole and present in animals

Melanin is a polymer of either or both of two monomer molecules: indolequinone, and dihydroxyindole carboxylic acid. Melanin exists in the plant, animal and protista kingdoms, where, among other functions, it serves as a pigment. The presence of melanin in the archaea and bacteria kingdoms is an issue of ongoing scholarly disagreement

Noun. (Greek, melas = black). Any one of a group of organic pigments which produces black, amber and dark brown colors by deposition in the cuticle.

Pigment in the skin that gives brown and black tones. Melanin makes a kind of screen that keeps out some the burning sunlight.

A dark brown or black pigment normally occurring in the skin and produced by the melanocytes in response to the sun's rays.

gives pigment to the skin.

insoluble pigments that account for the color of e.g. skin and scales and feathers