chlorophyll

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Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals.

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No one at all understands why it is possible for the plant cell that bears within its substance one of these green chlorophyll bodies to combine certain inorganic elements into nutritious foods, a feat that no human chemist can perform. Luther Burbank

Bacteria Like plants, the cyanobacteria use water as an electron donor for photosynthesis and therefore liberate oxygen ; they also use chlorophyll as a pigment. Source: Internet

Bananas are green when they are picked because of the chlorophyll their skin contains. Source: Internet

Because it absorbs red and blue light strongly but is transparent to green light, pure chlorophyll has a strong green colour. Source: Internet

By 1960, when most of the stereochemistry of chlorophyll a was known, Robert Burns Woodward published a total synthesis of the molecule. Source: Internet

Chloroplasts contain the green pigment chlorophyll which is needed for photosynthesis. Source: Internet

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