sentence: Green plants reflect mostly green and near-green light to viewers rather than absorbing it.
sentences_before: It still is unclear exactly why plants have mostly evolved to be green.
sentences_after: Green plants do not use a large part of the visible spectrum as efficiently as possible. More precisely, the question becomes why the only light absorbing molecule used for power in plants is green and not simply black.
concept_name: green plant
headings: Chlorophyll Chlorophyll and photosynthesis Why green and not black?
categories: Botany Molecular biology