For the same reason, carotenoid colors often predominate in ripe fruit after being unmasked by the disappearance of chlorophyll. Carotenoids give the characteristic color to carrots, corn, canaries, and daffodils, as well as egg yolks, rutabagas, buttercups, and bananas.
Overview. Bahamas is a Commonwealth, Constitutional, and Parliamentary Democracy whose current leader is Chief Executive Hubert Ingraham. The chief executive in Bahamas typically has a term length of 5 years. Bahamas's Legislature has 40 seats, and the last legislative elections were in 2007.
The designation of Bahamas can refer to either the country or the larger island chain that it shares with the Turks and Caicos Islands. As stated in the mandate/manifesto of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, the Bahamas territory encompasses 470,000 km 2 (180,000 sq mi) of ocean space.he largest island is Andros Island. Other inhabited islands include Eleuthera, Cat Island, Long Island, San Salvador Island, Acklins, Crooked Island, Exuma and Mayaguana. Nassau, capital city of the Bahamas, lies on the island of New Providence.