Answer:
Lightly pigmented people tend to be at higher risk of vitamin D deficiency
Explanation:
BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE:
Human skin is the largest organ of the body which makes boundary line between environment and internal conditions. Human skin cell produces pigment called melanin when ever it is subjected to Sun. More the melanin pigment produced more will be the skin darkens. Ultraviolet (UV) radiations also come from Sun and responsible for more pigmentation.
ANSWER EXPLANATION:
According to the question darkly pigmentation only occurs when their is high level of UV radiations. High level of UV radiations are also responsible for Vitamin D production.
People with lightly pigmented means that there environment has low level of UV radiations which are the requirement of Vitamin D production. Hence due to low UV radiations peoples with light pigmentation's are also be at higher risk of vitamin D deficiency
Answer:D
Explanation:
Both parent are Heterozygous for the sickle cell allele.
Both parent have sickle cell trait in which the both posses one abnormal allele of the hemoglobin beta gene (AS heterozygous genotype)
When two AS parents mate, probability of giving birth to a sickle cell anemia child is 1/4
AS + AS= AA, AS, AS, SS
Answer:
Seed color is governed by a single gene with two alleles. The yellow-seed allele is dominant and the green-seed allele is recessive.
