For anyone who wants to know the real answer. Unfiltered sunlight is white in appearance covering the full visual light spectrum. Once this light hits the atmosphere higher frequencies such as violet and blue are scattered as the lower frequencies pass through making the sun appear yellow. Most of the light still makes it through the first pass however so most of the full spectrum still passes through is reflected again by the earths surface. Once this bounced light hits the atmosphere again on the underside the higher frequencies are again scattered letting lower frequencies pass making the sky appear blue. Of the light that hits the plants leaves green light is reflected while everything else is absorbed making the leaf appear green.
but WHY do plants reflect green light instead of any other color? you skipped the most important part!
Because the way chlorophyll is shaped at a molecular level, it acts like a filter. It lets red and blue light pass, but reflects green light.
You might be thinking, well wouldn’t it it better to absorb green too? Why didn’t chlorophyll evolve to absorb all colors, making plants black? The answer is because evolution don’t give a damn about the best way to do things, only the good enough way. Chlorophyll developed by random chance, and blue-green algea (with chlorophyll) beat red algae (with phycoerythrin) to evolving into complex plant structures.
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Oh sure, complain about it, but don’t explain what’s wrong. Sounds like science to me. Blue, yellow, green, plants, it all makes sense. If you can’t explain it so a five-year-old can understand it, then you don’t really understand it.
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They’re also not including brown, from the soil they get their nutrients from! :(
Brown is how you get red leaf plants. Brown is just red and green mixed after all, so you take out the green for other stuff the plant needs and are left with red.
It’s all totally on the up and up.
It’s not almost right.
Chlorophyll, more like bore-aphyll.
This is to science what homeopathy is to medicine.
I don’t understand how anyone could think that the sun is yellow, without questioning why they’re able to see other colors in daylight besides yellow. It’s like they don’t even have the most basic understanding of how light and color work. It is impossible for the sun to be any color other than white, otherwise other colors wouldn’t exist.
It do look quite yellow though.
It’s because it’s going through atmosphere. Your seeing it with a bunch of blue wavelengths scattered by the atmosphere (take note of the blue sky).
Making the sun, when viewed directly, have a yellowish tint.
It’s still white.
If it’s yellowish, then it’s yellowish, not white - if we’re talking what can be spectrographically measured. If we’re talking about perception then it gets rather interesting with the way our eyes/brain compensate for light sources - see white balance on cameras, or that green/gold/blue/white dress controversy.
It does look yellowish though
Sorry chief, most people dont have any understanding of how light and color work.
looks yellow to me get your eyes checked
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yah, duh. Still looks yeller.
The fact that you’re down voted really speaks to the level of scientific illiteracy here
