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Johnny L.
Aug 7, 2017

A granum is a stack of thylakoids, so it is made up of multiple thylakoid discs.

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You can see in this diagram that the chloroplast has many discs inside it. These are called thylakoids and they are the site of the light dependent reactions of photosynthesis.

A granum is a single stack of these discs. If you are referring to more than one granum, you would use the term "grana."

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