Flattened sac of membrane in a chloroplast that contains pigment and carries out the light-gathering reactions of photosynthesis. Stacks of thylakoids form the grana of chloroplasts.
A flattened sac within a chloroplast. The membranes of the numerous thylakoids contain all of the chlorophyll in a plant, in addition to the electron carriers of photophosphorylation. Thylakoids stack to form grana.
Photosynthetic lamella; the internal membrane of chloroplasts, with which chlorophyll is associated.
a circular, fluid-filled sac that forms grana. Photosynthetic pigments are located in thaylakiod membrane.
Flattened membranous sacs that form the chloroplast membranes
(from Greek thulakos, bag): internal membrane in a chloroplast containing all the membrane proteins of electron transfers induced by photons
a unit of a stacked, lamellar membrane system in most cyanobacteria on which photosynthesis is carried out.
Thylakoids (commonly referred to as Thylakoid membranes) are a phospholipid bilayer membrane-bound compartment internal to chloroplasts, and represent the majority of its internal structure. The word "thylakoid" is derived from the Greek thylakos, meaning "sac". Thylakoid membranes fold on top of each other into stacks of disks referred to singularly as a granum and in the plural as "grana".
