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 of ocean space.