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Direct linkVirtanen, Olli; Constantinidou, Emanuella; Tyystjärvi, Esa – Journal of Biological Education, 2022
Plant leaves are green because they contain the green photosynthetic pigments, chlorophylls a and b. Popular science literature, and sometimes even textbooks, state that the greenness is caused by reflection of green light by chlorophyll. In the present study, we compared the reflectance spectra of green leaves to yellow or white leaves of the…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction
