Explain the relationships and trade-offs among amounts of skin pigmentation, Vitamin D production, and protection from UV radiation.

Ultraviolet radiation leads to DNA mutations in the melanocytes, which are skin cells that contain melanin. Melanin level is inversely associated with the ability of skin cells to produce vitamin D

Explanation:

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is a well-known environmental factor that causes mutations in the DNA of melanocytes, which are skin cells that produce melanin. Moreover, melanin is a protective pigment whose main function is to block UV radiation, thereby protecting the body from DNA damage and, consequently, from cancer (skin cancer). Abundant melanin levels can decrease the ability of the body to synthesize vitamin D, the only vitamin that can be synthesized with sunlight. In consequence, darker skin is associated with a higher risk of having vitamin D deficiency.

step 1 ammonium can be absorbed by plants, but some is converted into nitrates which are better for plants to absorb. this is called nitrification. 2. step 2 the deer eats the plants and uses the nitrogen-containing proteins for cell growth. 3. step 3 bacteria in the soil conduct nitrogen fixation to convert nitrogen gas from the atmosphere into ammonium. 4. step 4 some of the nitrates are absorbed back into plants, but denitrification breaks down the nitrates into nitrogen gas released back into the atmosphere. 5. step 5 nitrogen is found in the urine, which gets broken down into ammonium through the process of ammonification. 6. step 6 plants absorb the ammonium and begin assimilation, the process to add the nitrogen to protein.

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