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Suggest why leaves are green but roots aren’t

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plants and their leaves look green because the “special pair” of chlorophyll molecules uses the red end of the visible light spectrum to power reactions inside each cell. The unused green light is reflected from the leaf and we see that light.Leaves of plants are green because they perform photosynthesis while the roots are not because they do not perform photosynthesis is the best hypothesis based on the observation.

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