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It's still hard to hone in on what exactly inspires that pigment preference, but it's clearly something that's learned along the way.
Over the first few months of life, the iris is populated with those pigment-making cells and gets darker.
There are a few that can also lead to loss of pigment and lighter eyes.
And carotenoids are a type of pigment basically that are, it's a type of antioxidant pigment in like beta carotene.
This is a yellowish-brown pigment made up of proteins, fats, and metals.
Then, starting in the 19th century, chemists discovered they could design pigment molecules.
I was always like trying to like speculate this idea of can data become a pigment.
And I thought it can be an incredible opportunity to use wind as a data and as a pigment.
If they're using lapis as a pigment, lapis is the most pure blue pigment that's available.
Freckles are little blotches of melanin, which is basically the pigment of the skin.
And so your melanocytes, which are the pigment producing cells of the skin, get hyperactivated and they produce little blotches.
Just like leaves on other plants, the trap's surface contains a green pigment that lets it convert the sun's energy into sugar through a process called photosynthesis.
Like it feels really thin and runny, but also there's so much pigment in it that like it's really very, very strong.