Stroma in the chloroplasts of higher plants contains
- light-dependent reaction enzymes
- ribosomes
- chlorophyll
- light-independent reaction enzymes.
Answer
(4) light-independent reaction enzymes.
Solution
As per NCERT, the membrane system (grana, thylakoids) traps light energy and carries out the light reactions, i.e., synthesis of ATP and NADPH.
Chlorophyll and the light-reaction enzymes lie in the thylakoid membranes, not in the stroma.
In the stroma, enzymatic reactions synthesise sugar; these are the light-independent (dark) reactions.
The stroma is characteristically the site of the light-independent reaction enzymes. (It also has 70S ribosomes and DNA, but the enzymes of the dark reaction are its defining content.)
Answer: (4)