What do you call the green coloring pigment in plants?

Answer 1

The green pigment found in photosynthetic plants is called chlorophyll; it is responsible for converting sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into simple sugars through the process of photosynthesis.

Chlorophyll is found in structures called chloroplastswithin the cells of the plant; Chloroplasts are concentrated in the palisade cells in the mesophyll tissue layer of the leaves and stems of most plants.

Chlorophyll uses predominantly light in the red and blue portions of the visible light spectrum for photosynthesis, reflecting more green light and giving plants their typical green coloring.
Pigment is the natural colouring matter of animal or plant tissue.

There are three basic pigments in green plants:

• Chlorophyll
• Carotenoid
• Phycobilin

Answer 2

The green in plants is not so much needed than more a result of what it needs. That is plants do not make themselves green, rather they have certain light absorbing pigments that when white light is shone upon them, is green in color.

The fact that plants are green in color show that plants are reflecting primarily green light, and absorbing red and blue lights. The colors that an object absorbs is not reflected, and hence is not seen. The color that an object does not absorb is reflected, and hence is seen.

Plants utilize blue and red colored spectrum light primarily in their photosynthetic processes, and cannot efficiently use green light. Hence the pigments target and absorb red and blue light, while leaving green light alone to be reflected away and into our eyes when we look at them.

Answer 3

The "Green" is the chlorophyll you find in plants that contain photosynthetic cells. The chlorophyll absorbs light from the sun and converts it to energy the plant can use to sustain itself.

Answer 4

Chlorophyll is the green pigment in a plant.

Answer 5

Chlorophyll is the green pigment in most plant cells.

Answer 6

If you mean chlorophyll in plants, by a process called photosynthesis plants use chlorophyll and sunlight to produce the oxygen we and other animals breathe

Answer 7

photosynthesis