Granum
A granum (plural grana ) is a stack of
thylakoids in the chloroplast , an organelle found in plants and eukaryotic algae where photosynthesis takes place. Chloroplasts can have from 10 to 100 grana....
Endosymbiotic theory
...try of chloroplasts, for instance the presence of
thylakoids and particular chlorophylls , is very similar to that of cyanobacteria . Phylogenies built with bacteria, chloroplasts, and eukaryotic genomes also suggest that chloroplasts are most closely related to cyanobacteria. DNA sequence analysis and ...
Chloroplast
...he cell nucleus. Within the stroma are stacks of
thylakoids , the sub-organelle where photosynthesis actually takes place. A stack of
thylakoids is called a granum . A thylakoid looks like a flattened disk, and inside is an empty area called t...
Thylakoids
... pigment s are located in the membranes of the
thylakoids . Full article >>>
thylakoids The specialized membrane structures in which photosynthesis takes place. Internal membranes in ...
Thrombocytes
...al for blood clotting ; also called platelets .
thylakoids : membranes that make up the grana in chloroplasts ; the actual site of photosynthesis within chloroplasts . Full article >>> thrombocytes platelets . thromboxanes A class of molecule s derived from arachidonate and inv...
Photosystem
...of chlorophyll and other pigment s packed into
thylakoids . Many Prokaryotes have only one photosystem , Photosystem II (so numbered because, while it was most likely the first to evolve, it was the second one discovered). Full article >>> photosystem [Gk. photos, light + systema, that...
Membranes
... article >>> The membranes of the
thylakoids contain photosystem s I and II which harvest sol...f the cell ) ... Full article >>>
thylakoids : membranes that make up the grana in chloroplasts ; the actual site of photosynthesis with...
Lamellae
... membrane compartments, called the lamellae , or
thylakoids . Full article >>> The abdomen has silk glands used to spin a web to trap prey. Invaginations of the body wall form lamellae (pages) of the book lungs ; air flows across the lamellae in the opposite direction from blood flow to ...
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