How does the function of melanin explain not only the variety of skin colors but susceptibility to skin cancer?

The lack of melanin tends to correlate with a lighter skin color. However, it also correlates with a higher susceptibility to receiving a sunburn. The more often a person burns, the more likely it is that a person will be susceptible to skin cancers later on in life.

The answer would be c, white eyes are homozygous recessive. in the early 1900s, morgan conducted several experiments with vinegar  flies (drosophila). one  sample revealed an anomaly: a  white-eyed, single male fly. he attempted to breed this fly with the typical red-eyed females. the offspring were all red-eyed. using flies from this new generation (brother-sister pairs)  produced some red-eyed and a few white-eyed flies. the white-eyed were all male. in later experiments, he was able to produce white-eyed females. this proved that white eyes are not lethal to either sex (ruling out a and b). since the percentage of white eyes to red eyes is so low, white eyes are not a dominant trait. it would be a recessive trait.