BIOL1006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Chlorophyll, Vacuole, Thylakoid

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Like mitochondria, chloroplasts have their own dna and ribosomes, but chloroplasts have an entirely different function. Chloroplasts are plant cell organelles that carry out photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is the series of reactions that use carbon dioxide, water, and light energy to make glucose and oxygen. This is a major difference between plants and animals; plants are able to make their own food, like sugars, while animals must ingest their food. Like mitochondria, chloroplasts have outer and inner membranes, but within the space enclosed by a chloroplast"s inner membrane is a set of interconnected and stacked fluid-filled membrane sacs called thylakoids. The fluid enclosed by the inner membrane that surrounds the grana is called the stroma. The chloroplast has an outer membrane, an inner membrane, and membrane structures called thylakoids that are stacked into grana. The space inside the thylakoid membranes is called the thylakoid space.

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