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No, chlorophyll is not a protein. It is actually a pigment, much in the same way as the animal pigment heme.

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No. Chlorophyll is a pigment found in plant leaves. Carbohydrates are an organic compound which includes sugar and starch.

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No. The two aren't even remotely similar. Chlorophyll is more closely related chemically to heme (the two are both porphyrins) than it is to starch (a polysaccharide).

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Chlorophyl is not a carbohydrate.
Chlorophyll has a heterocyclyc aromatic ring and is a natural green pigment.

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Is glucose the same thing as carbohydrates?

yes glucose is the same thing as carbohydrates in a plant


What in the plant cell makes the plant green?

Glucose is not the answer. the answer is chlorophyll. chlorophyll is a pigment in the cell that uses the light from the sun to create glucose. chlorophyll is green.


How do you get carbohydrate from glucose?

Carbohydrates and glucose are the same thing.


Does chlorophyll trap glucose from sunlight?

no, chlorophyll traps the light energy from sunlight, and uses it in photosynthesis to make glucose.


What kind of cell uses chlorophyll to produse glucose?

Cell Plant uses chlorophyll to make glucose or sugar


What is chorophylls job in a plant?

Chlorophyll's is to convert sunlight in glucose chlorophyll is why photosynthesis occurs


What cell part is required for photosynthesis?

Chlorophyll or chloroplasts. They are the same thing.


Is glucose or chlorophyll the simple sugar broken down in mitochondria?

Glucose is the main substrate used for respiration.So it can be considered as the 6C sugar.


How can glucose change into strach?

its the same thing!


What is the type of energy that is generated by chlorophyll?

Chlorophyll....doesn't produce energy. It makes molecules called C6H12O6, or glucose. You might just want to remember it as glucose. ;)


What green plant pigments that traps light energy from the sun is called what?

the green pigment in plants that traps radiant energy from the sun is glucose


Do animals use chlorophyll to produce glucose?

No, it's an exclusive attribute of plants. Plants contain chlorophyll (it's what makes them green), which through the process of photosynthesis produces glucose. Animals get glucose from plants.