Monday, February 13, 2012

Flower petals have colors such as yellow or orange because they possess?

chlorophyll.



carotenoids.



carbon dioxide.



water.

Flower petals have colors such as yellow or orange because they possess?
Carotenoids. Those are yellow and orange pigments that are found in many plants. The best known of them is probably beta carotene (the most common isomer of carotene, which gives this category of pigments its name), found in carrots.
Reply:Flower petals posses different colours because they contain pigments like anthoxanins, erythrocyanin , xanthophyll which give respective colours.


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