granum
granum (pl. grana) A stack of platelike bodies (thylakoids), many of which are found in plant chloroplasts (each chloroplast contains about 50 grana). Grana bear the light-receptive pigment chlorophyll and contain the enzymes responsible for the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis.
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