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We only see green because of how our brain perceives the color. However, I'm pretty sure that the chlorophyll (and if you didn't know, Chlor means green and phyll means leaf), absorbs blue and red of the electromagnetic spectrum the best. However, most of the green are usually just reflected, and thus, since our eyes can only see the reflected light, the leaf looks green
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What makes the sea look slightly green?
Algae or other small plant life that grows in the water can make the sea look green. These organisms are photosynthetic and so contain the green pigment chlorophyll.
Compare and contrast chlorophyll and chloroplast?
Chlorophyll is a light sensitive protein complex (with pigments associated) that is found inside chloroplasts.Chloroplasts are for making the plant's food. The chlorophyll are found inside the chloroplasts. It absorbs light for photosynthesis. The chlorophyll absorbs the least green light, and this is reflected out, making the chlorophyll, chloroplasts, cells, and plants look green. The chloroplasts use all the energy from the chlorophyll to make the plant food.
What is the name of the green substance found in leaves?
The green substance in the leaves of plants is a pigment called chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is an essential pigment by virtue of which plants are able to carry out photosynthesis. Chlorophyll pigment traps solar energy and converts it into chemical energy. There are many types of chlorophylls. The most important chlorophyll is chlorophyll a, which is the reaction centre of a photosystem.
What organelle does photosynthesis in a plant cell and what does it look like?
Chloroplast. It has chlorophyll and it is somthing green and round
Why does chloroplast look green?
Plants apear green because of chlorophyll--the pigment inside the chloroplasts. It absorbs red and blue light from the sun and uses this light to carry out photosynthesis within the plant.
What is the green colouring matter of plants called?
chlorophyll is what makes the plant greenchloroplast is what conducts photosynthesis
Is chlorophyll in other foods not just leafy greens?
Chlorophyll is what plants use to conduct photosynthesis. Chlorophyll makes plants look green so only green plants will have chlorophill in them. Therefore in answer to your question it will just be leafy greens that have chlorophyll in them!
What does chlorophyll look like?
Chlorophyll is a green coloring that mostly plants have. Chlorophyll is the reason most plants are green.
When you look at a green leaf why do you see the color green?
a leaf look green in sunlight as it has green colored pigment in it. When sunlight falls on it all other colors are absorbed by the leaf as sunlight forphotosynthesis and green color is reflected to our eyes and the leaf look green to us.
Why does chlorophyll make a plant look green?
You may not know it, but sunlight is actually a mixture of all the colors of the rainbow. Chlorophyll absorbs most of colors in light but not green. plants look green because chlorophyll reflects green light.
What makes the sea look slightly green?
Algae or other small plant life that grows in the water can make the sea look green. These organisms are photosynthetic and so contain the green pigment chlorophyll.
What causes plants to look green?
chlorophyll
Plants look green because chlorophyll does what to green light?
You may not know it, but sunlight is actually a mixture of all the colors of the rainbow. Chlorophyll absorbs most of colors in light but not green. plants look green because chlorophyll reflects green light.Read more: Why_does_chlorophyll_make_a_plant_look_green
How does chlorophyll make a leaf look?
Chlorophyll is green, and it gives leaves the same color.
What substance in plants causes them to look green?
chlorophyll
Why is grass green in color?
All plants contain the molecule Chlorophyll which is used by most plants in the process of photosynthesis. This Chlorophyll molecule absorbs Red and Blue light to use the energy from these wavelengths leaving green light to be reflected. It is this reflected green light that makes the leaves of plants look green.
Why do plant cells look green?
No all plant cells look green - only those cells that contain the pigment chlorophyll look green. The chlorophyll enables the plants to photosynthesize to make their food. The cells that are green are therefore those which may be exposed to sunlight.
