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Is carotene a plant pigment

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When a plant has orange pigment carotene what color are its leaves?

orange


What are yellow and orange plant pigment called?

Carotene or Cartenoids


Is it true that greater amounts of the pigment carotene are produced when the skin is exposed to the sun?

Carotene is an orange or red plant pigment found in carrots and many other plant structures. It is a terpenoid hydrocarbon. You are thinking of melanin which reacts with sun to darken our skin, not carotene.


Is it true that the greater amounts of the pigment carotene are produce when the skin is exposed to the sun?

Carotene is an orange or red plant pigment found in carrots and many other plant structures. It is a terpenoid hydrocarbon. You are thinking of melanin which reacts with sun to darken our skin, not carotene.


If a plant has a high amount of the orange pigment carotene what color would the leaves be?

green


What is a xanthophyll?

A xanthophyll is a derivative of a type of carotene, a plant pigment commonly yellow in colour.


Where do find the pigment chlorophyll within a plant cell?

chlorophyll a and carotenoids are the main pigments found in almost all plant and other type of pigment are also present


Chlorophyll is not the only pigment contained in a plant cell?

Yes, it also contains xanthophyll, carotene and some other pigment like anthocyanin present in cytoplasm.


What is the plant pigment that captures light?

there are two types. Those are chlorophyls and caratinoyds.


What is the pigment in photosynthesis?

Chlorophyll A and Chlorophyll B, beta carotene, and xanthophyll.


What are the yellow and orange pigments found in carrots?

The pigment is known as carotene, which is an orange photosynthetic pigment, which just means it is a pigment found in chloroplasts responsible for catching light energy used in photosynthesis.


What is the red pigment in plants called?

carotene