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can plants with leaves other than green carry out photosynthesis justify your answer​

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Answered by SᴘᴀʀᴋʟɪɴɢCᴀɴᴅʏ
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Chlorophyll is one type of pigment that is part of the machinery of photosynthesis, but there are other pigments that are other colors that can do photosynthesis too.

In fact, even leaves that look green have other pigments in them. You can see these pigments when trees and shrubs lose their leaves in fall (if you live where this happens). The colors of fall leaves were in the leaves all along, but hidden by the chlorophyll.

We see different wavelengths of light as color. Sunlight has all the colors of the spectrum. When light hits an object, some colors are absorbed, others are reflected. When a leaf looks green, all of the other color are being absorbed, but green is bouncing back to your eyes.

Not all wavelengths of light have the same amount of energy. Light at the purple end has more. Light on the red end has less.

If you see an algae that looks red, what colors is it absorbing, and what colors are being reflected to your eyes?

If you are interested in questions like this, you may want to study botany or plant ecology.

Answered by sourasghotekar123
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Answer:

No plants leaves other than green cannot carry out photosynthesis.

But there are some exceptions.

Explanation:

  • Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that, through cellular respiration, can later be related to fuel the organisms activities.
  • The characteristic of photosynthesis include: It is a process that occurs solely in plants that have the green pigment chlorophyll used to prepare food.
  • The requirements include sunlight, water and oxygen where two processes occur one light dependent and another which is light independent.
  • Other leaves which are not green in color do not carry out photosynthesis because- as they lack green pigments which is chlorophyll.
  • Plants that have purplish- red leaves, like Japanese maples, use the photopigments that are available in their leaves for the process of plant photosynthesis.
  • Red colored leaves of plants do not photosynthesis as they lack the green pigments.

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