Albino corn has no chlorophyll. You would expect albino corn seedlings to

A) fail to thrive because they cannot capture light energy.
B) synthesize glucose indefinitely, using stored ATP and NADPH.
C) use accessory pigments such as carotenoids to capture light.
D) switch from the C4 pathway to the crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) pathway.
E) capture light energy in the white end of the visible light spectrum.


A

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