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 A scientist is studying pigmentation in the skin of salamanders

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 A scientist is studying pigmentation in the skin of salamanders. She has bred a mutant salamander that is very lightly pigmented. Microscopic examination of skin cells from this animal shows that pigment granules, which would normally be dispersed throughout the cytoplasm, are concentrated near the nucleus, causing the light color. She hypothesizes that there is a problem with what motor protein in these cells? A) myosin B) kinesin C) dynein