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Cyanobacteria contain chlorophyll, blue pigment, and _____. chloroplasts membrane bound organelles mitochondria carotenoid pigments

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Carotenoids. They serve as light harvesting pigments in photosynthesis and the protect against photooxidative damage.
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carotenoid pigments is the correct answer.

Step-by-step explanation:

Cyanobacteria contain chlorophyll, blue pigment, and carotenoid pigments.

  • Cyanobacteria are prokaryotic and autotrophic bacteria, they prepare their food by a process called photosynthesis.
  • They do not have nucleus and organelles.
  • In cyanobacteria has various types of pigment are present such as carotenoids, chlorophyll pigment, and phycobilin pigment.
  • Cyanobacteria also called blue green algae.
  • examples of cyanobacteria are Chroococcales,Oscillatoriales and Prochlorophyta, etc.

Thus, the correct answer carotenoid pigments.

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