What is melanin?
Melanin- insoluble pigments that account for the color of skin, scales, and feathers of animals.
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Melanin is a class of compounds found in animal and protista kingdoms , where it serves predominantly as a pigment chacha!
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Melanin (noun) is a skin pigment (substance that gives the skin its color). Dark-skinned people have more melanin. ChaCha!
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Also called pigment, melanin is a substance that gives the skin and hair its natural color.
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Melanin is any of various black, dark brown, reddish-brown, or yellow pigments of animal or plant structures, as skin or hair. Cha
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Melanin is insoluble pigments that account for the color of e.g. skin and scales and feathers. Thanks for doing the ChaCha!
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Melanin- n. any of various black, dark brown, reddish-brown, or yellow pigments of animal or plant structures (as skin or hair)
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It's a brownish-black pigment found in skin, hair, and other animal or plant tissues. Thanks for using ChaCha!
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Melanin is any of a class of insoluble pigments, found in all forms of animal life, that account for the dark color of skin.
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