Skin Color Factors

4. Where is melanin transferred to?
6. What does melanin protect skin from?
11. What can be a Red-yellow or black-brown pigment?
12. Carotene can be found in what type of food?
14. Hemoglobin is bright red when bound to what?
16. Overproducing melanin leads to the darkening or the lightening of skin?
17. Addison's disease affects which gland?
18. People with Addison's disease have a characteristic deep bronze color due to excess production of what hormone?
19. Individuals lose their melanocytes causing what on their skin?

1. What is melanin produced by?
2. What condition develops when the immune defenses malfunction and antibodies attack normal melanocytes?
3. The pigment carotene may give off is?
5. When blood vessels dilate from heat, skin ___?
7. What can deoxygenated hemoglobin result in?
8. Jaundice is a result of built up _____ in the liver.
9. The epidermal cells and fatty tissues of the dermis accumulate what kind of pigmentation?
10. What color skin does an infant suffering from jaundice have?
11. What hormone stimulates melanocytes?
13. What Vitamin can Carotene convert into?
15. extreme cold or heart failure can cause skin to appear what color?