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Hair Color

By Janice VanCleave

Have you ever seen a dog with pink hair?I have! FYI: The Maltese dog shown had white hair before my granddaughter dyed its hair pink. The genetics of hair color is very complex. In the most simplistic sense, hair color from black to white depends on a pigment called eumelanin. The amount and type of […]

Filed Under: Biology Tagged With: eumelanin, pheomelanin, pigment in hair

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