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What are thylakoids? Why are these called structural and functional unit of chloroplasts?

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They are oval shaped sacs which lie superimposed in the stroma of chloroplast to form grana. These have enzymes for photochemical reactions of photosynthesis as have chlorophyll containing quantasomes.

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