Thylakoid/Related Articles: Difference between revisions

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Chloroplast [r]: The green organelles found in many higher plant cells and protists. Internal thylakoid membranes contain chlorophyll where photosynthesis takes place. ^[e]
Organelle [r]: Specialized subunit within a cell that has a specific function, and is usually separately enclosed within its own lipid membrane, found in all eukaryotic cells. ^[e]
Arthur Meyer (botanist) [r]: (1850-1922), German botanist and cell biologist, described chloroplasts and the chlorophyll-rich thylakoid grana. ^[e]

Granum [r]: A stack of disks of thylakoid membranes in plant chloroplasts, where photosynthesis occurs. ^[e]
Lamellae [r]: Extensions of thylakoid membranes of the grana inside eukaryotic chloroplasts, linking the grana and, by so doing, linking the thylakoid membrane lumens. ^[e]
Light-harvesting complex [r]: The supercomplex of subunit proteins and pigments that gather light and direct the energy to the photosynthetic reaction centre in a photosystem. ^[e]
Photosynthetic reaction centre [r]: Add brief definition or description

Light reactions [r]: Chemical reactions that occur in the stroma of the chloroplast during photosynthesis and use the ATP and NADPH synthesized during the light-dependent reactions to fix carbon atoms from CO₂. ^[e]
Photophosphorylation [r]: Add brief definition or description
Adenosine triphosphate [r]: A molecule sometimes called the "energy currency" of a cell ^[e]
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate [r]: Add brief definition or description

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