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Water-soluble proteinaceous pigments found in red algae and cyanobacteria
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phycobilin
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Phycobilins (from Greek : (phykos) meaning "alga", and from Latin : bilis meaning "bile") are light-capturing bilanes found in cyanobacteria and in the chloroplasts of red algae , glaucophytes and some cryptomonads (though not in green algae and plants ...
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n. (context biochemistry English) any of a group of highly coloured pigments found in some photosynthetic algae; they are open-chain tetrapyrroles related to mammalian bile pigments
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n. water-soluble proteinaceous pigments found in red algae and cyanobacteria
Usage examples of phycobilin.
Other pigments, which reflect red light and absorb yellow and green light, such as carotenoids and phycobilins, have evolved.
The striations contain the chlorophyll, and the little spheres nestling against these striations contain the phycobilins, which make a red alga red.
The striations contain the chlorophyll, and the little spheres nestling against these striations contain the phycobilins, which make a red alga red.