Why arent plants black 🌿

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Why are plants green? Is there a reason plants evolved to be green, globally? What does it have to do with the color of the sunlight coming down through our atmosphere? • If you liked this video check out these: • Bandaids Glow when Opening?! | EVERYDAY MYSTERIES • • Bandaids Glow when Opening?! | EVERYD... • Why Hawaii's volcano is so UNUSUAL • • Why Hawaii's volcano is so UNUSUAL • http://physicsgirl.org/ • / thephysicsgirl • / thephysicsgirl • / thephysicsgirl • Help us translate our videos! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_p... • Creator: Dianna Cowern • Editor: Jabril Ashe • Hamburger eater: Jabril Ashe • Colorful Planet Artist: Ashley Warner • Thanks to: Dan Walsh, Kyle Kitzmiller, Joe Hanson and Kyle Norby • Sources: • Black Nigrescens Plant: • http://www.thedangergarden.com/2013/0... With permission from Loree Bohl, • thedangergarden.com • Green Nigrescens Plant: • With permission from © Davis Landscape Architecture, London, UK http://www.davisla.com • Solar spectrum adapted from: • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Chlorophyll spectrum adapted from: • http://www.austincc.edu/biocr/1406/la... • The Functional Significance of Black-Pigmented Leaves: Photosynthesis, Photoprotection and Productivity in Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’ • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... • Functional evolution of photochemical energy • transformations in oxygen-producing organisms • http://www.publish.csiro.au/FP/pdf/FP... • Evolutionary Competition Between Primitive Photosynthetic Systems: Existence of an early purple Earth? • http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006AAS... • A Compilation of Selected Data on Solar Radiation at Sea Level • http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/... • Green Light Drives CO2 Fixation Deep Within Leaves • http://pcp.oxfordjournals.org/content... • Green Light Drives Leaf Photosynthesis More Efficiently than Red Light in Strong White Light: Revisiting the Enigmatic Question of Why Leaves are Green • http://pcp.oxfordjournals.org/content... • http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/green_li... • https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... • http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/... • The sensitivity of the human eye to different colors • https://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~schubert/Li... • Music: APM

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