Flashcards: Photosynthetic pigments

Phycocyanobilin is a blue phycobilin, i.

Phycourobilin is a tetrapyrrole orange molecule involved in photosynthesis in cyanobacteria and red algae.

Chlorophyll a is a specific form of chlorophyll used in oxygenic photosynthesis.

Chlorophyll b is a form of chlorophyll.

Phycocyanin is a pigment-protein complex from the light-harvesting phycobiliprotein family, along with allophycocyanin and phycoerythrin.

Chlorophyll f is a type form of chlorophyll that absorbs further in the red (infrared light) than other chlorophylls.

Chlorophyll d is a form of chlorophyll, identified by Harold Strain and Winston Manning in 1943.

Phycoerythrobilin is a red phycobilin, i.

Phycoerythrin (PE) is a red protein-pigment complex from the light-harvesting phycobiliprotein family, present in red algae and cryptophytes, accessory to the main chlorophyll pigments responsible for photosynthesis.

Porphyrins are a group of heterocyclic macrocycle organic compounds, composed of four modified pyrrole subunits interconnected at their α carbon atoms via methine bridges (=CH−).

Chlorophyll (also chlorophyl) is a term used for several closely related green pigments found in cyanobacteria and the chloroplasts of algae and plants.

Retinal is also known as retinaldehyde.

Chlorophyll c is a form of chlorophyll found in certain marine algae, including the photosynthetic Chromista (e.g. diatoms, brown algae) and dinoflagellates.