Question

Plastids that are white in colour (pigment-free) are known as _____.

• A. chromoplast
• B. lysosome
• C. leucoplast
• D. chloroplast

Answer 1

The correct option is C leucoplast

Leucoplasts are white or colourless plastids. They lack pigments and are found in the non-photosynthetic tissues of the plants. They may be specialised for bulk storage of proteins, lipid or starch. Chromoplasts on the other hand, have coloured pigments while choroplasts have the photosynthetic green pigment chlorophyll.