INTEGUMENTERY SYSTEM
INTEGUMENTERY SYSTEM MISCELLENOUS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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False
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True
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Though you can’t see it happening, every minute of the day we lose about 30, 000 to 40, 000 dead skin cells off the surface of our skin. So just in the time it took you to read this far, you’ve probably lost about 40, 000 cells. That’s almost 9 pounds (4 kilograms) of cells every year!
Detailed explanation-2: -Humans lose 200, 000, 000 skin cells every hour. During a 24-hour period, a person loses almost five thousand million skin cells. It has been a challenge for scientists to explain how this colossal shedding process can occur without there being a break in the skin barrier.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to a 2011 study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, we shed between 0.03 and 0.09g of skin every hour. That sounds like almost nothing, but over the course of a lifetime it adds up to about 35kg, or roughly half your bodyweight.