• Question: why can hair be differnt colours?

    Asked by pepper11 to Hywel, Joseph, Poonam on 24 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Joseph Cook answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      Hair is different colours depending on the type and amount of pigments that your body produces, which is determined by your DNA. I think hair colour is determined mostly by melanins, which are the same pigments that determine your skin colour.

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