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What are grana and stroma?


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Stroma:

  1. Stroma is the liquid occupied internal space of chloroplasts that encompasses thylakoids and grana.
  2. Grana, the plural of granum, are piles of designs called thylakoids, which are little plates of layer on which light-subordinate photosynthesis responses happen.
  3. Stroma is comprised of photosynthetic proteins, starch grains, DNA, and ribosomes. During photosynthesis,

Grana:

  1. Grana are heaps of film bound, leveled discoid sacs called thylakoids that contain chlorophyll atoms.
  2. They are the chloroplasts' essential practical units.
  3. . The homogeneous framework where grana are inserted is known as stroma.
  4. The granum is the site of light response, while the stroma is the site of dull response.

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