how is your skin attached to your face? Actually got my 5 year old daughter.
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I like how inquisitive your daughter is. Well, the skin is made of a bunch of cells in a bunch of different layers. At the bottom layer, there is a cleverly named “basement membrane” that is like a sticky protein jello. It literally sticks to your skin cells with a bunch of different proteins that form junctions with proteins expressed on your skin cells. There are a bunch of different types of attachments. Some are like velcro, others are like stitching. On the other end of the basement membrane, it is connected to the rest of your face. Basically, the basement membrane (and a bunch of other connective tissues) does the “tom holland spiderman holding the two halves of the boat together” with your face.
There is a “glue” layer of cells and tissue that sticks your skin to you and you can actually see it in surgeries
It’s like many paint layers on a wall. Skin have many layers and every layer is attached to another untill it reaches the bones (the wall)
There’s actually a genetic condition where the body doesn’t produce the protein that keeps your skin attached to your muscle. Epidermolysis bullosa.
It’s a lot like how the skin of a chicken is attached to a chicken. Get a chicken and let her help you prepare it.
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