Your analysis of your evidence is the most important part of your response essay. It is important that you do not simply restate your evidence or your thesis when constructing analysis. Instead, you should look to explain how the author's technique or use of a character, for example, adds to the theme conveyed.
Land plants (and plants in the ocean, called algae) have a lot of chlorophyll-a pigment because it is essential to photosynthesis, but they also have other pigments, called accessory pigments, that help them absorb light.
1 Chlorophyll is the chemical that makes plants green. 2  Green plants need these things in order to grow and make their own energy and food: 3  Water. 4  Minerals. 5  Sunlight. 6  Carbon Dioxide. 7  Chlorophyll. 8  If plants do not get sunlight, they cannot produce chlorophyll and they will lose their green color and eventually die. Minerals. 2  Sunlight. 3  Carbon Dioxide. 4  Chlorophyll. 5  If plants do not get sunlight, they cannot produce chlorophyll and they will lose their green color and eventually die. 6  If plants lack any of the other things they need to grow and make their own energy and food, they will die.