Question: Throughout her illustrious career, German chemist Lotte Loewe researched a variety of topics, from ascorbic acid reaction kinetics and uric acid to which organic pigments commonly made by plants, algae, bacteria and fungi?

 Carotenoids can be produced from fats and other basic organic metabolic building blocks by all these organisms.  The only animals known to produce carotenoids are aphids and spider mites, which acquired the ability and genes from fungi or it is produced by endosymbiotic bacteria in whiteflies . Carotenoids ( ), also called tetraterpenoids, are organic pigments that are produced by plants and algae, as well as several bacteria and fungi.  Carotenoids from the diet are stored in the fatty tissues of animals, and exclusively carnivorous animals obtain the compounds from animal fat. <SEP> Ascorbic acid is a naturally occurring organic compound with antioxidant properties.  It is a white solid, but impure samples can appear yellowish.  It dissolves well in water to give mildly acidic solutions.  Ascorbic acid is one form ("vitamer") of vitamin C.  It was originally called -hexuronic acid, but, when it was found to have vitamin C activity in animals ("vitamin C" being defined as a vitamin activity, not then a specific substance), the suggestion was made to rename it.  The new name, ascorbic acid, is derived from "a-" (meaning "no") and "scorbutus" (scurvy), the disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C. Because it is derived from glucose, many animals are able to produce it, but humans require it as part of their nutrition.  Other vertebrates which lack the ability to produce ascorbic acid include some primates, guinea pigs, teleost fishes, bats, and some birds, all of which require it as a dietary micronutrient (that is, in vitamin form). <SEP> Lotte Loewe (November 7, 1900-unknown) was a German chemist known for her research in organic chemistry.  Loewe received her doctorate in chemistry from the University of Breslau in 1937 and began her career there shortly thereafter, spending six years as a chemistry assistant from 1927 to 1933.  She then moved to the University of Zurich for one year (1934) and the University of Istanbul for 21 years, from 1934 to 1955.  Her last academic appointment was at the University of Basel, where she spent 6 years from 1955 to 1961.  Throughout, her research concerned ascorbic acid reaction kinetics, uric acid, carotenoids, keto-enol tautomerism, and diazomethane reactions.  Loewe then became an industrial chemist in Basel, though she maintained a position as an assistant professor at the University of Freiberg. <SEP> Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.  The term is today generally limited to the green plants, which form an unranked clade Viridiplantae (Latin for "green plants").  This includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns, clubmosses, hornworts, liverworts, mosses and the green algae, and excludes the red and brown algae.  Historically, plants formed one of two kingdoms covering all living things that were not animals, and both algae and fungi were treated as plants; however all current definitions of "plant" exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria).