thylakoids
Chloroplasts contain saclike photosynthetic membranes called thylakoids, which are interconnected and arranged in stacks known as grana. Pigments are located in the thylakoid membranes. The fluid portion outside of the thylakoids is known as the stroma.
<span>Genetic variation can be caused by mutation (which can
create entirely new alleles in a population), random mating, random
fertilization, and recombination between homologous chromosomes during
meiosis (which reshuffles alleles within an organism's offspring)</span>
