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carotenes and xanthophylls in plants are yellow to orange pigments and act as shield pigments because

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they are specialised proteins which absorb light strongly in blue violet range

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they prevent chlorophyll from photooxidation

C

they absorb light and transfer it to chlorophyll through inductive resonance

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more than one option is correct

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