III. Skin, Hair, and Nails
a. Health Assessment: Skin, Hair, Nails
b. Techniques for assessing the skin, hair, and nails
c. Normal and Abnormal Findings: Clinical Significance
d. Skin Lesions: descriptions and assessment
The hair color and freckle genes in humans are on two different
chromosomes. Red hair (d) is recessive to dark hair (D) and
freckles (f) are recessive to the homogenous skin coloration (F).
Two people who are both heterozygous for both genes have a
child.
A. What is the probability that their child will have red
hair?
B. What is the probability that their child will have
freckles?
C. What is the probability that their child will have red hair...
What factor influences the color of a melanocyte (and thus the
color of your skin)
Surrounding cells metabolic rate
Location in the skin
Length of dendrites on the melanocyte
The primary cause of cancer is...
Mutation of DNA
None of the answers are correct
Microbial infection
1. The skin and its accessory structures such as hair and nails
are called.
2. What are the functions of the integumentary system?
3. What is the outermost, thin cellular membrane of the
skin?
4. What is the thick, fat-containing tissue layer?
5. What are at the root forming the color of one’s hair?
6. What functions does hair have?
7. Why do people have so many sweat glands?
8. Do sebaceous glands make hair feel oily?
9. What is...