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Is there an organelle which has to be colored a specific color in an animal or plant cell? If yes, which is it?
Question Date: 2015-04-14
Answer 1:

Plastids have color because they contain photosynthetic pigments. Depending on the color of those pigments, they can have up to six different names (cyanoplasts are blue, chloroplasts green, xanthoplasts yellow-green, chrysoplasts yellow, phaeoplasts bround, and rhodoplasts red).



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