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Alexeev081 [22]
3 years ago
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Energy from sunlight can excite electrons, kicking them out of their orbitals and creating free radicals. Free radicals are high

ly reactive atoms or molecules that have unpaired electrons. They degrade and destroy other compounds in their vicinity. Carotenoids, one of the pigments present in most chloroplasts, can stabilize these free radicals. This suggests that ________.
Biology
1 answer:
SCORPION-xisa [38]3 years ago
3 0

Since carotenoids stabilize dangerous free radicals, we can assume that their function is to protect the cell from the free radicals.

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