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Thylakoid

A thylakoid is part of an internal membrane system of chloroplasts folded repeatedly into a stack of disks. Such stacks (grana) have light absorbing pigments and enzymes required to form ARP, NADPH, or both in photosynthesis. The stacks connect (by membranous channels) as a single functional compartment.



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