Is color of objects a evolutionary response?

[petrushka.googol]

We see a color (eg. green) because it reflects green frequencies and absorbs all else.

Did Matter resolved into color coding from inception or is there some subtle process of frequency selection (preferential) that happens intelligently (harmonious selection)?

 

Was chlorophyll synthesized at the time life appeared on earth?

 

Is xanthophyll as efficient a bio-color as chlorophyll?

 

What if we change the color of chlorophyll?

 

What would be the response in terms of insect pollination, fruit formation, ATP synthesis etc.?

 

Would the 38 ATP released as a by-product of photosynthesis change, if the color of chlorophyll changed?

 

Can we seek to tamper with natural selection?

 

Please express your opinion.

 

 

[Sensei]

It's easier to see process with animals than vegetables.

Imagine that we have bears that have childes. Parents can have whatever colors. Childes have: one white, one gray, one black (natural mutations).

If they would be living in forest, white one would be easily visible by preys, and couldn't survive and spread its genes to the next generation.

If they would be living in arctics, white one would be the hardest visible, unlike gray and black one, which wouldn't survive, starving. White one would spread genes.

Species with wrong color in environment are not surviving. Predators can't be easily visible to preys. And preys can't be easily visible to predators.

 

Pigeons owners are using this knowledge to create white only pigeons. Even if original parents have natural colors.

But instead of predators they are choosing which color birds should survive.

 

Vegetables more often fight against eating by animals by creating toxics substances. Or by making fruits good to eat, so other part of vegetables are leaved intact by animals.

Edited October 27, 2013 by Sensei

[CharonY]

Initially chromophores had their color because their function required a certain structure/composition, which in turn has specific absorption spectra. The use of colors as signaling came around much later.