Biology SKIN Study Exam Questions Correctly Answered.
Biology SKIN Study Exam Questions Correctly Answered. Why is vitamin D important to our health? - CORRECT ANSWER allows for us to break down calcium, which helps strengthen bones and immune system What is the connection between skin, sunlight, and vitamin D? - CORRECT ANSWER UV B is a type of radiation from the sun that starts the process of converting inactive vitamin D in the epidermis to the active kind You are a pediatrician and have determined that a young patient is at risk for rickets. Outline a treatment you would recommend to the child's parents and why you would recommend that course of action. - CORRECT ANSWER go outside eat beef liver, fatty tuna, and other food rich in vitamin D take vitamin D supplements What advantage did sweat glands and less body hair provide in our ancestor's environment? - CORRECT ANSWER when they switched to running, they needed to be able to cool off sweat glands release heat, and less hair means less heat is trapped What are the two primary types of melanin and how do they differ? - CORRECT ANSWER the more eumelanin, the darker the skin they have everyone has the same amount of melanocytes, but the amount and size of melanosomes produced differs
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