Who gave chemical compositions of chlorophyll and carotenoids?
A
Park and Biggins
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B
Meyer and French
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C
Willstatter and Stahl
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D
Arnon and Benson.
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Solution
The correct option is A Willstatter and Stahl Chlorophyll which is an essential factor in photosynthesis was first isolated and namedby Joseph Bienaime Caventou and Peter Joseph Pelletier but the chemical composition of the same was first elucidated by the German chemist Richard Willstatter followed by Hans Fischer. Carotenoids which are the organic pigments found in the chloroplasts and chromoplasts of plants and other photosynthetic organisms. These are oil-soluble molecules comprising of 40 branched
carbon units bonded together.