Question

Describe about Photosynthetic Pigments.​

Answer 1

A photosynthetic pigment (accessory pigment; chloroplast pigment; antenna pigment) is a pigment that is present in chloroplasts or photosynthetic bacteria and captures the light energy necessary for photosynthesis.

Answer 2

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$\underline{ \bf{Photosynthetic \: Pigments : }}$

The pigments involved in the process of photosynthesis are known as Photosynthetic Pigments.
Pigments like chlorophylls, carotenoids, anthocyanins, phycobilins may be found in a plant cell.


Few of them are discussed below :


$\boxed{ \bf{Chlorophylls : }}$

The chlorophylls, the green pigments in chloroplast are of seven types, i.e chlorophyll a, b, c, d, e, bacteriochlorophyll and bacterioviridin.
The green colour of the plant is due to the presence of chlorophyll in them.


$\boxed{ \bf{Carotenoids : }}$

Carotenoids are lipids and can be classified into two groups :

(I) Carotenes.

(II) Xanthophylls.

Carotenes are orange red in colour and they were isolated from carrot.
Xanthophylls are yellow in colour.