Chlorophyll Edit Meaning

1.

Any of a group of green pigmentsthat are found in the chloroplasts of plants and in other photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria, especially:

A waxy blue-black microcrystalline green-plant pigment, C55H72MgN4O5, with a characteristic blue-green alcohol solution. Also called chlorophyll a.

A similar green-plant pigment, C55H70MgN4O6, having a brilliant green alcohol solution. Also called chlorophyll b.

Chlorophyll

2.

a tetrapyrrole similar to heme but with a reduced ring and a long phytol chain esterified on to a carboxylic acid side chain. Falls into the class of organic chemicals called polyenes, which have alternating networks of single and double bonds.

that's chlorophyll a in the chloroplast