BIOLOGY:CONCEPTS+APPL.(LOOSELEAF)
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Researchers studying skin color consistently measure skin color from exactly where on the body?

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Skin colour is largely determined by a pigment called melanin but other things are involved. Your skin is made up of three main layers, and the most superficial of these is called the epidermis. The epidermis itself is made up of several different layers.

Melanocyte:Cross section of skin showing melanin in melanocyte.

The deepest of the epidermal layers is called the statrum basale or statrum germinativum. In this layer lie important cells called melanocyte. Melanocyte sare irregularly shaped cells that produce and store a pigment called milanin. 

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