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Computational Thinking in Science and Math

Celebrating differences


You know by now that DNA has a genetic code to make specific proteins.  

Different versions of the MC1R gene determine what type of melanin gets made.  The most common MC1R version codes for eumelanin (brown hair), but there are specific regions in the DNA sequence that are changed to make pheomelanin (red hair) or a non-functional protein.