Plants with non green leaves can carry out photosynthesis.
Good question.There are other colors that can do the same thing as chlorophyll, but they are not part of the machinery of photosynthesis.Even leaves that look green have other colors in them.If you live in a place where trees and shrubs lose leaves in fall, you can see these pigments.The colors of fall leaves were hidden by the chlorophyll in the leaves.We see different colors of light.There are all the colors of the sun.Some colors are absorbed and others are reflected when light hits an object.Green is bouncing back to your eyes when a leaf is green.There are different amounts of energy in different parts of the light.There is light at the purple end.There is less light on the red end.What colors are being reflected to your eyes when you see analgae that looks red?You may want to study plant ecology if you are interested in this.Thanks for asking.
Good question.There are other colors that can do the same thing as chlorophyll, but they are not part of the machinery of photosynthesis.
Even leaves that look green have other colors in them.If you live in a place where trees and shrubs lose leaves in fall, you can see these pigments.The colors of fall leaves were hidden by the chlorophyll in the leaves.
We see different colors of light.There are all the colors of the sun.Some colors are absorbed and others are reflected when light hits an object.Green is bouncing back to your eyes when a leaf is green.
There are different amounts of energy in different parts of the light.There is light at the purple end.There is less light on the red end.
What colors are being reflected to your eyes when you see analgae that looks red?