Colour: a human history
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What Is Chlorophyl?
Chlorophyl is the green pigment inside every leaf. We associate most plants with being black, so it's quite a mystery why they're green. The first prototype of plants emerges in the sea when a photosynthesizing creature was consumed by another creature and that created chlorophyl.
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