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the solar panel inside a leaf, stacking sunlight into sugar one photon at a time
means A thylakoid is a flattened, membrane-bound sac inside a chloroplast where the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis take place, converting light energy into chemical energy.
from Coined from Greek thylakos, meaning 'sac' or 'pouch,' plus the suffix -oid, meaning 'shaped like' or 'resembling.' So the word is quite literally 'sac-shaped' — a name given by botanists describing the flattened, bag-like membranes they saw stacked like coins inside chloroplasts under the microscope.
- location
- folded membranes inside chloroplasts
- shape
- stacked like coins, called grana
- job
- converts light energy into ATP and NADPH
- origin
- likely descended from ancient photosynthetic bacteria