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Raw tomato and unripe chillies are green. During ripening the __ degenerates and the masked red takes over.

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Raw tomato and unripe chillies are green. During ripening the chlorophyll degenerates and the masked red takes over. Chloroplasts are green coloured plastids. They have green coloured pigment called chlorophyll.

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