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. Most current gene therapies use viruses to carry transgenes into human cells. C. Summarize two observations indicating that WHR is a good predictor of male or female reproductive value. D. Explain the changes described in part C in terms of chemical properties of the androgen receptor.