They interact with light to absorb only certain wavelengths, pigments are useful to plants and other Autotrophs, organisms which makes their own food using photosynthesis. in plants,algae,and Cyanobacteria, pigments are the means by which energy of sunlight is captured by photosynthesis.
Answer:
According to the susceptibility towards antimicrobial agent the ranking from most susceptible to least susceptible is as:
enveloped virus > gram-positive bacteria > gram-negative bacteria > endospores > prions
Enveloped viruses are most susceptible because their envelope is made up of lipid which is easily disrupted or degraded by antimicrobial agents like detergent.
Gram-positive bacteria are only having one layer of cells wall that is made up of peptidoglycan which is susceptible to most antibiotics but gram-negative bacterial have an extra outer layer of covering made up of lipopolysaccharide so many of them show multidrug-resistance.
Endospore are among the most resistant microbial structure which is formed outer to cell wall and do not allow most antimicrobials to enter the cell.
Prions are infectious protein so antimicrobial agent do not work on prions and it also resist its chemical degradation therefore it is least susceptible.
