Xanthophyll pigment provides yellow colour but it's type fucoxanthin provides brown color to brown algae so why fucoxanthin is a type of Xanthophyll ?

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Fucus is a genus of brown algae. So Fuco-xanthine means a xanthophyll specific to brown algae. It is a type of xanthophyll because it contains oxygen-containing functional group in its molecular structure as in xanthophylls.

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