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  2. Human skin color - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 December 2024. "Skin pigmentation" redirects here. For animal skin pigmentation, see Biological pigment. Extended Coloured family from South Africa showing some spectrum of human skin coloration Human skin color ranges from the darkest brown to the lightest hues. Differences in skin color among ...

  3. Monk Skin Tone Scale - Wikipedia

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    The Monk Skin Tone Scale is an open-source, 10-shade scale describing human skin color, developed by Ellis Monk in partnership with Google and released in 2023. [1]

  4. Fitzpatrick scale - Wikipedia

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    The Fitzpatrick scale has been criticized for its Eurocentric bias and insufficient representation of global skin color diversity. [9] The scale originally was developed for classifying "white skin" in response to solar radiation, [2] and initially included only four categories focused on white skin, with "brown" and "black" skin types (V and VI) added as an afterthought.

  5. List of genetic codes - Wikipedia

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    The euplotid nuclear code; The bacterial, archaeal and plant plastid code; The alternative yeast nuclear code; The ascidian mitochondrial code; The alternative flatworm mitochondrial code; The Blepharisma nuclear code [4] The chlorophycean mitochondrial code (none) (none) (none) (none) The trematode mitochondrial code; The Scenedesmus obliquus ...

  6. Punnett square - Wikipedia

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    The Punnett square is a visual representation of Mendelian inheritance, a fundamental concept in genetics discovered by Gregor Mendel. [10] For multiple traits, using the "forked-line method" is typically much easier than the Punnett square.

  7. Color terminology for race - Wikipedia

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    Categorization of racial groups by reference to skin color is common in classical antiquity. [7] For example, it is found in e.g. Physiognomica, a Greek treatise dated to c. 300 BC. The transmission of the "color terminology" for race from antiquity to early anthropology in 17th century Europe took place via rabbinical literature.

  8. Melanin - Wikipedia

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    When the scale of this pattern matches the wavelength of visible light, structural coloration arises: giving a number of species an iridescent color. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] Arachnids are one of the few groups in which melanin has not been easily detected, though researchers found data suggesting spiders do in fact produce melanin.

  9. Dilution gene - Wikipedia

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    Equine coat color genetics discusses color genes in horses, including a brief description of dilution genes Equine coat color describes various colors in horses Cream gene , describes the process for horses by which the cremello, perlino, smoky cream double-dilute colors are created as well as the buckskin , palomino and smoky black single ...