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Q.Draw and label the parts of structure of chloroplast.
Puducherry TnboardTamil Nadu HSC First Year (DGE) Board 2024Subjective· 3mImportance★★★★★
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →A chloroplast has an outer and inner envelope membrane surrounding the stroma, within which lie stacked thylakoid discs (grana) connected by stroma lamellae — the sites of the light reactions — plus DNA, ribosomes, and starch grains for the dark reactions and self-replication machinery.
A text-based description cannot substitute for an actual hand-drawn labelled diagram, but here is the complete structure to be drawn and labelled, part by part, from outside in:
- Outer membrane — smooth, freely permeable envelope membrane forming the outer boundary of the chloroplast.
- Inner membrane — the second envelope membrane, less permeable, regulating what enters/leaves the stroma; together with the outer membrane it forms the double-membrane envelope.
- Intermembrane space — the thin space between the outer and inner envelope membranes.
- Stroma — the colourless, proteinaceous ground matrix filling the interior of the chloroplast, in which the following structures are embedded, and where the dark reaction (Calvin cycle) enzymes (including RuBisCO) operate.
- Thylakoid — a single flattened, membrane-bound sac/disc suspended in the stroma; its membrane holds the photosynthetic pigments and electron-transport components for the light reaction.
- Granum (plural grana) — a stack of several thylakoid discs, resembling a pile of coins; a chloroplast typically contains 40–60 grana.
- Stroma lamella (intergranal lamella) — a tubular membranous extension that connects the thylakoids of one granum to those of an adjacent granum, keeping the whole thylakoid system interconnected. …
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