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Melanin is a pigment that gives skin its color and is released when sun touches the skin :)

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Melanin is a pigment produced by specialized cells called melanocytes in the skin, hair, and eyes. It helps protect the skin from damage caused by the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation by absorbing and scattering the UV rays. Melanin also determines the color of our skin, hair, and eyes.

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Melanin helps protect the skin from UV radiation.

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It is brownish black pigment in skin , hair and eyes .It colors body parts .

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