Why Are Leaves Green? Part 1
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You've probably learned that leaves are green because they're full of a green molecule calledchlorophyll - it's the reason for the greenness of plants, from moss-green moss to grass-greengrass to ever-green evergreens. And the reason chlorophyll is so incredibly popular--showingup in nearly every plant on Earth--is that it's good at soaking up sunlight. The morelight a plant gets, the more energy it has to make sugar and grow tulips and kumquatsand do all the other things plants do.But wait a second: doesn't the fact that chlorophyll is green mean that it's actually bad at absorbinggreen light? I mean, sunlight is composed of the whole rainbow of colors, each a separatewavelength, and the colors we see when we look at a leaf are t...
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You've probably learned that leaves are green because they're full of a green molecule calledchlorophyll - it's the reason for the greenness of plants, from moss-green moss to grass-greengrass to ever-green evergreens. And the reason chlorophyll is so incredibly popular--showingup in nearly every plant on Earth--is that it's good at soaking up sunlight. The morelight a plant gets, the more energy it has to make sugar and grow tulips and kumquatsand do all the other things plants do.But wait a second: doesn't the fact that chlorophyll is green mean that it's actually bad at absorbinggreen light? I mean, sunlight is composed of the whole rainbow of colors, each a separatewavelength, and the colors we see when we look at a leaf are t...
