5. Caucasian skin gets its color mainly from the white dermal collagen and the blood pigment ____HEMOGLOBIN_____.…
Skin color in humans, many genes determine the skin color and offspring is expected to express an intermediate phenotype…
* All humans have about the same concentration of melanocytes. Skin color is largely due to the amount of melanin in the epidermis.…
The pigments that give the skin a wide variety of colors are melanin and carotene…
Skin cancer, otherwise known as skin melanoma, has become a serious epidemic in the United States over the last several years. Approximately one in 60 people will develop some form of skin cancer in their life time. With tanning beds and extended outdoor tanning becoming more common, as well as “being tan” become the new beauty tip. However, genetics still plays a very important role in skin cancer. It has been said that people with minimal eumelanin genes, the gene that determines hair and eye color, are more susceptible to skin cancer to do their light hair, eyes and fair skin. Most skin cancer cases are caused by ultraviolet rays, however, approximately five percent of cases are…
The sun also produces ultraviolet radiation. The radiation absorbs into the skin and as it does, melanin is initiated, making the skin turn a darker color. Sunscreen is recommended but must be generously applied to prevent burning of the skin. Sunglasses, hats, and clothing that has built in SPF are a good way to avoid skin problems and lesions. If melanoma is developed, the area can be removed by excision and may be stitched together to heal. A check-up is necessary to ensure that the cancerous melanoma cells have all been removed and that the healing process is going…
It causes the pigments in populations to darken in color within darken surroundings. In this case, adaptive melanism improves their ability for camouflage, which makes them less noticeable to predators.…
Herring, Cedric and Verna M. Keith “Skin Tone and Stratification in the Black Community” Campus.fsu.edu. Inc, Nov 1991. Journal of the American of Sociology, vol. 97, No. 3, Feb. 2009, pp.760-778. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2781783.…
Melanin is the pigment that gives the skin its characteristic color. Vitiligo is caused by a loss of pigment in the skin, due to destruction of pigment-forming cells known as melanocytes. The exact cause of the destruction of these cells is not known.…
It is important to know more about the variety of skin tones by gaining knowledge on each one. Each culture around the world has its own unique skin tone depending on where they are from and who their parents are.…
The findings are split: the highest rated skin tone is is the tan skin tone, with a average mean rating of 11.71. The dark brown skin tone is next, with an average mean rating of 10.72, then the brown skin tone with an average mean rating of 10.44, and last is the pale (light) skin tone, with an average mean rating of 10.06. Thus, I have to reject my second hypothesis. However, being that the tan skin tone is in the lighter category, there is still some truth defining lighter skin tones to be more…
We can never know who analyzes the things we say or do, so it’s important to treat all blacks as beautiful. This discussion has…
Welcome to the skin layers with our top layer called the Epidermis, the middle layer called the Dermis, and the bottom layer called the Subcutaneous Fat. The Epidermis guards the body and is full of Melanin which helps prevent sunburns, while the Dermis is stretchy, and stores a variety of sweat glands. However, MedlinePlus says that sunburned cells look much different than normal cells. Sun’s rays penetrate the outer skin, or the Epidermis, which destroys the Dermis, and results in the killing of skin cells. Also, the UV, UltraViolet, Rays from the sun are what cause the sunburns. Even when you are just tanning, the rays cause the melanin in your skin to become a darker color, while tanning, and sunburns, can reduce the melanin elastic, causing you to age prematurely.…
The notion of race has been thrown around a lot recently in academic settings, social circles, and the media. From the tokenistic fallacy that President Obama’s presidency crushed the argument of so-called “racial disparities” to the incorrect clumping of whole religions into a perverse race, race discussions remain abundantly found in society, both explicitly and implicitly. But what is race? Many seem to believe that it’s a natural, biological occurrence. That one’s so-called race stems from a different set of genetics that make up his racial group. Others may believe that it’s simply a societal sorter, based entirely on perceptions and not biology. Yet disparities exist in society from one racial group to another, and many times it’s perceived as any one group’s genetics being inferior to any other group’s genetics. Perceived racial inferiorities are not the product of genetic determination; rather, they are the result of societal inequities reinforced by the incorrect belief in the former.…
Why do your skin tone, hair length and texture play such an important role in the music video and modeling industry? I pose that question to the masses to try to understand the certain favoritism or stereotypes associated with the complexion of an individual's skin color or hair texture. This stigma fascinates me in the sense that the majority of the women in these videos or runways have a light complexion, no matter the race, and long bone straight hair. This world is becoming very biased and as far as choices with the decision of the tone of your skin determining on whether it is too dark or too light to reach the upper echelon social status or attain a job. I researched my topic using information from several scholarly journals…