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Why do chloroplasts aligh, thhemselves along the walls of the mesopgyll cells ?

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Choloroplasts align themselves along the walls of the mesophyll cells for the following two reasons.
(i) For easy diffusion of gases.
(ii) To receive optimum quantity of incident light.
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