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If I genetically remove all natural pigment and dyes from a human being, could I create a TRANSLUCENT HUMAN?
A question not to be taken too seriously perhaps, but let's have at it!
So: if we remove the pigment of the skin, mutate the rusty heme of the blood, saturate the purple stains of mitochondria, and many other genetic dilutions, so that no colored or pigmented cells remain, could I create a ghoul-like translucent human being?
If not, why not? Which would be the hardest coloured body system to neutralize, dilute, impede, or destroy?
I heard that most cellular structures are colourless, but Mitochondria are purple and rend themselves a deeper hue when straining to produce ATP. This was the inspiration to this rather odd question.
All answers appreciated.
Go!
6 Answers
- xaxormLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Well, people are already somewhat translucent. If you put a flashlight behind your hand, you see the pink light shining through. But even with no pigment, we could never be transparent, because our various tissues would refract and reflect light in all sorts of ways, even without the absorption of light by pigments. For example, consider a pile of broken glass. All that material is pigment-free and actually used to be pretty much perfectly transparent, but because of all the surfaces of material in different orientations, light is reflected and refracted and it is very hard to see through a bunch of broken glass.
- limetangLv 51 decade ago
Well Your skeleton would not become translucent (at least I think so), So I assume you would have a wierd skelleton kind of thing, regardless to do this would probarbly kill someone.
- 1 decade ago
No. Albino's have no pigment. White people have low pigment.
More importantly, atoms are quarks, and quarks are vibration (energy).
The real question is- why do we appear and feel solid in our environment when technically there is no such thing as mass.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
I believe they have already experimented with this. You end up looking like "POWDER"
