Why are plants green?
Classical Mechanics
Level
1
We’ve detected that the sun emits (out of all visible light), green light. And we don’t know why plants evolved to be green. Think about it, not blue, red, purple but green (in most cases). Did plants evolve to be green because the sun emits more green light than other light?
We can’t know
Yes
Evolution doesn’t exist
No
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1 solution
Why not? It’s because if the plants were to take advantage of the “greenness” of the sun, then they would absorb that light; not completely reflect it. We see things’ colors when they absorb everything but that color. A banana absorbs almost every color, except yellow.