Question #46970
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Nov 2, 2016
Carotenoids (including xanthophylls) and phycobilins (in rare species) are the pigments other than chlorophyll in chloroplasts.
Explanation:
There are a variety of pigments found in chloroplasts, the primary ones in plants being chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b - the green pigments that absorb light for photosynthesis.
Carotenoids , comprising carotene and xanthophyll , are the orange and yellow pigments that function as accessories to the primary pigments; they absorb light energy at wavelengths insufficiently absorbed by chlorophyll.
Phycobilins are a group of water-soluble pigments (the bluish phycocyanin and the reddish phycoerythrin) found only in the chloroplasts of Cyanobacteria and Rhodophyta.
