What gives hair its color? Preview CT-STEM

Looking into the code

It’s time to check out the code used to make this model! This way, we can find out how the program “knows” what melanin levels each hair color has.

Questions

Please answer the questions below.

Question 5.1

Click on the netlogo code model and scroll through. Find where the instructions are for the human to be made. Copy and paste the code for making a human here.

Question 5.2

SAQ: Change something about the human (or their hair) in the code (you will need to recompile the code and hit setup again to see any changes). What did you do (copy and paste the new code here)? Describe the effect. (Make sure you recompile the code first!)

Question 5.3

Optional: Can you find where we told the computer how to figure out the melanin levels that should go with each hair color? Copy that code and paste it here.

Notes

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