What gives skin the color?

Question

Well,i have homework and the question is What gives skin the color?

Answer 1

Melanin

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http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/skin_noSW.html

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http://www.besthealth.com/besthealth/bodyguide/reftext/html/skin_sys_fin.html

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Answer 2

That depends on the color you're talking about. Melanin is "the" pigment that darkens skin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skin_color

But in the areas of the earth with less "insolation," (amount of sunlight reaching the fround), like Sweden, say, or England, the skin of the people there is whiter, with much less melanin, and st before they faint, their blood pressure falls, and they go pale or gray, right? That's the blood leaving their face and therefore changing it's color.

So coloring is different in people, just as it is for some primates. While melanin may be the primary coloration in human skin (as it is in the eastern chimpanzees which have dark skin) it isn't in all, (as it is in the western chimps which have light skin):

http://www.primates.com/chimps/chimpanzee-info.html

So blood in many people colors it, too.

Answer 3

Basically its Melanin as people have said previously. It is released by Melonocytes (Type of Cell) in the Epidermis of the skin. Oddly enough, the difference in skin colour between a white person and a black person isn't the number of melanocytes they have, but the activity of them. Everyone has a similar number of melanocytes but they are just more active in Black people.

The release of Melanin is stimulated by the pituitary by a hormone called Melanin Concentrating Hormone.

Answer 4

melanin. Albinos have none, dark skinned people alot. It is even what gives us our eye and hair color. White hair is absence of melanin. Black hair is full of melanin. Light skinned people go out in the sun and pop up with freckles. It is their way of protecting their skin from the harmful affects of the sun.

Answer 5

Melanin. You have melanin sites in your skin that release pigment to help protect your skin from the UV rays of the sun. Albinos have no melanin, therefore have no color. Get it?

Answer 6

A long time ago when people were first made, they lived in different places.

I think it's the temperature of the place they live at.

BUT probably the melonin and pigment

Answer 7

yupp melolen. if u have dark skin its because ur body produces alot of melolin and were born (or ur parents) are from a country with lots of sun) the oppisite for if u haave light skin

Answer 8

it is called melonin i believe.

Answer 9

melonin

Answer 10

pigment