GK QUESTION#3715
Which of the following illustrations is related to chloroplasts? The labelled illustrations are described below.
a: A star-shaped outline with several branching projections.
b: A four-lobed shape filled with a grid-like pattern.
c: An oval cutaway containing several stacks of flattened discs connected by membranes.
d: A sheet of adjacent irregular polygonal cells, each with an internal dark spot.
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B. c
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Illustration c shows an oval organelle containing stacks of internal flattened discs joined by membranes, characteristic of a chloroplast. These thylakoid membranes house the photosynthetic light reactions.