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why our skin turns black on exposure to sunlight? (not from the lesson typed above)

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Humans basically get tan not black when exposed in sunlight as UV radiation of the sun help our skin to secret more melanin . Melanin is a substance which makes your skin tone, so more melanin more dark or tan you are , less melanin more fair you are

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