Doubt by Souptik Dutta

Biological classification,Q no 15, mam agar meh wrong na hu to I think, in eukaryotes chloroplast is double membranous because according to evolutionary aspect eukaryotes take chloroplast from outside for their benefit as a symbiotic association. So outer membrane is eukaryotic membrane & inner one is,it's own i.e. chloroplasts membrane, but in dinoflagellate how chloroplast has 3 membrane instead of 2 ??? Mam you said that 2 membrane of chloroplast & 1 is it's thylakoid's membrane.. but mam thylakoid toh chloroplast k andar hai & stroma bhi toh hai thylakoid k around toh 3rd membrane konsa hua ?? Plz explain

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Answer by Isha Agarwal

Chloroplasts bounded by three rather than the usual two membranes, which has led to suggestions that the chloroplasts in dinoflagellates were originally symbiotic algae. They are large organelles that, like mitochondria, are bounded by a double membrane called the chloroplast envelope. In addition to the inner and outer membranes of the envelope, chloroplasts have a third internal membrane system, called the thylakoid membrane. Within the envelope membranes, in the region called the stroma, there is a system of interconnecting flattened membrane compartments, called the thylakoids. The thylakoid membrane is quite similar in lipid composition to the inner envelope membrane, containing 78% galactolipids, 15.5% phospholipids and 6.5% sulfolipids in spinach chloroplasts. The thylakoid membrane encloses a single, continuous aqueous compartment called the thylakoid lumen. The membranes of the thylakoid contain photosystems I and II which harvest solar energy to excite electrons which travel down the electron transport chain.