Granum
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Granum commonly refers to:
The individual parts that are stacked to make up thylakoids in a chloroplast of a plant cell
- A thylakoidThylakoidA thylakoid is a membrane-bound compartment inside chloroplasts and cyanobacteria. They are the site of the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis. Thylakoids consist of a thylakoid membrane surrounding a thylakoid lumen. Chloroplast thylakoids frequently form stacks of disks referred to as...
stack (granum, pl. grana) inside chloroplasts - Granum, Alberta, a town in southern AlbertaAlbertaAlberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
, CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
The individual parts that are stacked to make up thylakoids in a chloroplast of a plant cell