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Katie Kyler BIO 4415 Winter 2003 Algal Pigments Introduction All photosynthesizing plants have certain pigments in them by which they capture sunlight. All plants have in common the photosynthetic pigment of chlorophyll, but the other accessory pigments as different. These accessory pigments can be the same between two red algae, or two green algae. In this lab a red, green and brown algae will be used to extract the photosynthetic pigments from. We will also be extracting the photosynthetic pigments from Coleus sp., which is a red land plant leaf and, and compare the accessory pigments of this to the red algae. Methods and Materials We used two different kinds of red algae for this experiment. The first was Polysiphonia sp. and the second Porphyra sp. The green algae were Entreromorpha linza, and the brown algae were Fucus gardneri. The test plant we used to compare against the red algae was Coleus sp. A...

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