• Question: What colour are chloroplasts?

    Asked by smokeybacon2000 to Alexis, Dr D, Helen, Jasmine, Mario on 17 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Alexis Barr

      Alexis Barr answered on 17 Jun 2013:

      Green! Chloroplasts are green because they contain a chemical call Chlorophyll that absorbs all the colours in visible light except green, which it reflects. So they look green. This is also why (most) plants are green.

    • Photo: Andrew Devitt

      Andrew Devitt answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      Green! It’s the pigment chlorophyll that does that.

    • Photo: Jasmine Penny

      Jasmine Penny answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      Green!

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