A hyphenated word counts as one word. For the following questions, either three of the statements are correct and one is false, or three are false and one is correct. Pick out the one odd statement, be it correct or false, and circle the respective letter. Human Skin Pigmentation a. Dark skin confers heat tolerance.
Dark skin protects against skin cancer.
Dark-skinned people evolved only in Africa. Dark skin promotes vitamin D synthesis. Malaria is contracted only by black people. The proximate cause of malaria is the formation of sickle-shaped red blood cells. All approved gene therapies for humans are somatic gene therapies.