is chlorophyll an enzyme?

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in kaplan practice test, it says
CO2 + H2O --> sugar + O2 is catalyzed by chlorophyll.

I didn't know chlorophyll was a catalyst. ?? is it? how?

 

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in kaplan practice test, it says
CO2 + H2O --> sugar + O2 is catalyzed by chlorophyll.

I didn't know chlorophyll was a catalyst. ?? is it? how?

Chlorophyll a is a photosynthetic pigment in the thylakoid membrane that captures light, which splits H2O to capture electrons in Light reaction of Photosynthesis. So you can say it's a catalyst. What did you have in mind when you think of Catalyst?