I mean, I know plants are green because chlorophyll is green. But why is that? Is that particular hue any better or more efficient for plants, light absobtion or energy transfer? Was it just random that these molecules happen to be green? Or is green really better than other colors for this job?
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Chlorophyll absorbs energy from the light to carry out photosynthesis. It just so happens that it absorbs all the colour wavelengths except green, which gets reflected back. You do get red leaves as well
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