Biology help! I don't understand Y red light passes thru chlorophyll solution when chlorohpyll b absorbs red?
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You would be surprised how often in real life this question gets ask. You tell your teacher that you appreciate there devotion.
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The sea is mostly salt water with suspended organisms and minerals.\n\nUnless the organisms carry a lot of pigments, there will be no specific absorption of colour. Instead, you will have unspecific absorption by particles. In this case, light on the red (low wavelength) side of the spectrum will be absorbed more than light on the blue side.\n\nYou can check this at home: pour a little milk into a glass of water so that it still remains mostly transparent and hold it against a conventional lightbulb. The glass content will appear slightly blueish.\n\nThe amount of absorption is dependent on the thickness of the layer. The more impure water there is, the bluer/blacker it will appear.
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dunnerzplant pretty much has it right.  To give a more basic explanation, the retina has an array of "rods and cones" laid out like pixels on a tv screen, and they are all connected to the visual cortex that has a similar array of perceptive neurons that can piece all fo the signals together as a picture.\n\nDifferent cells in the retina have different chemicals that are sensitive to different colors, or wavelengths of light.  When light of that color strike that cell, the chemical does a slight shape-shift that ignites a mechanism to change the cell's output of neuroreceptors, liek a switch.  Once the light disappears, the photochemical shifts back to its latent state, and the perception of that color also ceases.\n\nIt's pretty cool stuff, really.  Any good Molecular and Cellular Biology textbook will give a good description of how the whole thing works.  I think even a basic college Biology text will give a rudimentary treatment of the subject.
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ok so packets of sunlight are called PHOTONS and those PHOTONS are absorbed in PHOTOSYSTEM 2 (PS2) which are proteins on the membrane of cytoplasm cells on plants (or any photosynthetic organisim)\n\nfollow so far? ok here is where it complicated...\n\nok so little electrons are floating around in PS2 and when the light comes in it energizes them and they zoom across into PS 1. and are now PHOTON ELECTRONS.\n\nmeanwhile....\n\nwater (h2o) is also being absorbed and the electrons are splitting them apart so it is just an h and an o. so the o goes away somewhere and the h floats into the PROTEIN SYNTHASE which is also a protein in the membrane of cytoplasm. it is shaped like a tube. when hydrogen goes in, it spins and produces ATP. \n\nBUT...\n\nremember the PHOTON ELECTRONS?? they left PS1 and now float arond inside the cytplasm. a PHOTON ELECTRON , NADP+ molecule and ATP combine to form NADPH AND ATP.\n\n\nTHE END!!
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Pigments are organic molecules that absorb light of specific wavelengths; in plants, the most important pigments of plants are chlorophylls,anthocyanins and carotenoids. As they absorb different colors, they reflect others and those are the ones we see.\nGreen leaves have lots of the photosynthetic pigments (chlorophylls) that absorb mostly blue and red light, while they reflect green.\nIn autumn the chlorophylls break down and other pigments (carotenoids) that absorb all colors except for yellow and orange become visible. As the other answerer said, those pigments were there all along, masked by the green pigment.\nSome plants manufacture anthocyanins that make their leaves red.As those pigments are synthesized _in addition_ to the other pigments, and as a "special effort" of the plant, they have been suggested to have protective role.
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any solution gives colour due to the fact that the outermost electrons absorb the energy and move to a highre orbit corrospondingly. when they come back to their orignal state, the enegry is emitted in the form of photons, which may have the wavelength crrspndngly to a colour.
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As per above, red and blue wavelengths are generally the most important because chlorophyll absorbs these colors to a greater extent.  Greens and yellows are often reflected, resulting in the colors of plants that we see.  When the color of light is red or blue, chlorophyll are more apt to absorb the light, thus engendering an increase in the rate of photosynthesis.
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Because leves contain pigment Chlorophyll, which absorb all colors except green.That is why!
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Chlorophyll actually comes as two similar but distinct dyes, one absorbing a rather distinct wave length band of blue light and one absorbing a rather distinct wave length band of red light. The grass green color we perceive is white light minus those to bands. If the leaves have additional dyes which absorb more light outside of those bands, they will appear differently colored.
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The eyespot helps the organism find sunglight to power photosythesis and the chloroplast allows the organism to carry out photosthesis when light is available. \nThey work together because the eyespot finds sunlight which allows the cholorplast to allow the organism to carry out photosythesis. \nHope this helps!
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Chlorophyll only absorbs specific wavelengths of light. All other light is reflected. The reflected light is what allows us to perceive leaves as being green.
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So...\nThe energy of a photon depends on its wavelength.  \nThe relationship goes like this:\nE = 1240 eV nm / lambda, where E=energy in electron volts and lambda is the wavelength in nanometers.\n\nThe red Balmer line is on the order of ~700 nm, and the blue is somewhere around 485 nm.  \nSo, let's take a look at the formula again.  We know the red line has a longer wavelength than blue, and since energy is inversely proportional to the wavelength, red is going to have a smaller energy than blue.\n\nHope this is helpful :-)
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different types of chlorophyls are composed of different pigments which absorb different wavelengths of light (different colors in the spectrum)
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Chlorophyll is a rather complex and most of all large molecule, which means that the pure substance will be a solid.   In a leaf the chlorophyll is in solution.\n\nLeaves turning brown most likely involves encymatic digestion of parts of the molecule. The core construction of chlorophyll is quite hardy - a flat system of five- or six-atom rings with a central magnesium ion held in place by nitrogen atoms pointing to it in a square. (Hemoglobine and one of the vitamins have a similar basic structure, hemoglobine with iron in the centre and the vitamin with cobalt.)\n\nYou can dry a leaf and keep the chlorophyll intact at temperatures up to 120°C without any browning effect. Such a dried leaf will remain green, unlike a wet leaf where encymatic digestion will destroy the pigment.\n\nThe leaf will turn brown at temperatures where paper also begins to turn brown - when the cellulosis of the plant cells begins to split off water. This may start around 451°F...
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The photosynthetic pigments on the chloroplasts (more specifically, the thylakoid membranes) work by absorbing light.\n\nThe most abundant photosynthetic pigment is chlorophyll A and B, which like to absorb every color except green, which is reflected :)\n\nBecause there's a lot of green-reflecting chlorophyll, the chloroplasts appear green. Of course there are also pigments that reflect other colors (e.g. carotene reflects orange), but there are far fewer of those so we still see green.
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Simple one will be \nSunlight + Carbon dioxide (CO2) + Water (H2O)--> Glucose (C6H12O6) + Oxygen (O2).\nor \n6CO2 +12 H2O (light energy and chlorophyll) ---> C6H12O6 + 6O2\nRemember to use subscript whenever necessary.
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chloroplast contains pigments for capturing solar energy for photosynthesis.plant cells absorb light of visible spectrum that have wavelength between 400 to 700 nm. and uv radiation doesnt fall between it so plant cannot absorb this part of ligt rays. if a plant will be subjected only to uv rays then the plant will die.