Use "melanin" in a sentence
melanin example sentences
melanin
1. Research show that vitamin c help decrease melanin formation
2. The fact that melanin is
3. Although budgies are usually green, blue, or yellow, with black and white accents, there are really only two pigments in the feathers and skin of budgies: melanin, a pigment that causes dark colors such as black and brown; and a carotene layer that produces yellow (varying to red and orange)
4. Variations in color are caused by the way light travels through the carotene layer and is reflected or transmitted by the melanin layer
5. Carotene is located in the thin, transparent layer at the top of the color cells in the birds' feathers, whereas melanin granules are present toward the center of the cells
6. In blue budgies, there is a lot of melanin in the cells, but there is no yellow in the surface layer
7. Thus, when the blue light is reflected back from the melanin, it does not go through a yellow filter, and our eyes see blue
8. Remember: when melanin is present, yellow is absent
9. As you might expect, white is the absence of both melanin and carotene pigments, with the upper layer of the color cells filled with reflective white granules
10. Remember: white lacks both melanin and carotene
11. As a rule (some systems differ), genes that produce melanin are indicated by O, those that produce yellow carotene by F
12. The gene for melanin is carried on the Z (X) chromosome, so a male budgie may have one or two chromosomes with Z (X), a female only one
13. Albinos are all white, with no black (melanin) present in the feathers or skin
14. that melanin is responsible for the skin’s dark pigmentation, studies clearly
15. in your face way - but just because they have melanin in their skin and their skin is not lily
16. ability to produce melanin
17. inhibits the production of Melanin
18. She had briefly hesitated, almost having said that azure was the color of her eyes, but she quickly remembered that her eyes had changed with the increased melanin from her high sunlight exposure
19. It was silly and superficial that the melanin draining from her body would have such a profound effect on him, but it was what they represented that thrilled him most: her true self was bared to him, all her secrets exposed in her new skin
20. Cells at the base of the hair follicles stop their melanin production as we grow older
21. On top of that, it was a bluish hue, atypical for naturally occurring melanin
22. suggests that melanin may play a role in the regulation of mood and stress (Nestler
