Why aren’t all animal proteins the same color? Ex-Why aren’t chicken, pork and beef all red? What determines a proteins color?
In: Biology
It’s because they are built differently. Different species will construct their muscles differently with different proteins, different structures different chemicals etc.
Within an animal, different muscles look different.
Take a chicken. The breast muscles are structural, so have very little myoglobin and are white. The legs, thighs and wings are working muscles for movement, use much more energy, so need more oxygen and therefore have more myoglobin, thus are darker in colour.
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