Tell about chloroplasts....
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Chloroplast
✍️They are spherical \bold{oval \:or \:disc}ovalordisc like in shape.
✍️Each chloroplast is covered by a double membrane.
✍️Outer membrane is \bold{freely \: permeable \: membrane}freelypermeablemembrane and \bold{smooth}smooth
✍️Inner membrane is \bold{Selectively \: permeable\: membrane}Selectivelypermeablemembrane
✍️Space inside the inner membrane is filled up with a fluid called the \bold{stroma}stroma
✍️ Embedded in the stroma are a number of flat disc like structures placed one above the other forming a \bold{pile}pile
✍️ Individual discs is called \bold{Thylakoid}Thylakoid and pile is called \bold{grana}grana
✍️ Several grana are interconnected by means of bridges called \bold{lamellae}lamellae
✍️Stroma of chloroplast contains it's own DNA and ribosomes.
✍️So, they are also known as \bold{Semi \: autonomous \: organelles}Semiautonomousorganelles
\mathfrak\pink{Functions}Functions
➡️ Chloroplast is site of photosynthesis
➡️It prepares the food for the plant so it is also called the \bold{kitchen\: of \: the \: cell}kitchenofthecell
Chloroplasts:-
Chloroplasts are the food producers of the cell. The organelles are only found in plant cell and some protists such as algae. Animal cells don't have chloroplasts.