Golgi apparatus

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Diagram of the Golgi apparatus showing its stacked, curved membranes with labeled parts including cisternae, cis face, trans face, lumen, and various vesicles involved in cellular transport and secretion.

What is the Golgi apparatus?

Diagram illustrating exocytosis in cell biology, showing how secretory vesicles from the Golgi apparatus fuse with the cell membrane to release proteins, with pathways for both regulated and unregulated secretion labeled.

The video thumbnail image shows an illustration of an animal cell next to a photo of a whale swimming in the oean.

How different parts of a cell interact

Portrait photograph of Bartolomeo Emilio Camillo Golgi, Italian scientist with a large mustache, wearing a dark suit and white shirt, facing slightly to his left.

Cutaway illustration of a eukaryotic animal cell showing labeled internal structures, including the nucleus, nucleolus, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, and other organelles.

Illustration comparing three cell types: a round animal cell and an irregularly shaped plant cell, both showing labeled organelles, and an elongated bacteria cell with labeled structures such as flagella and capsule.

Side-by-side labeled diagrams of a typical animal cell and a plant cell, showing internal structures such as nucleus, mitochondrion, endoplasmic reticulum, and unique features like chloroplasts and cell wall in the plant cell.

Formation of lysosomes

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What is the Golgi apparatus?

What is the Golgi apparatus?

Questions and answers about the Golgi apparatus.

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The video thumbnail image shows an illustration of an animal cell next to a photo of a whale swimming in the oean.

The Major Parts of an Animal Cell

From teeny-tiny ants to 200-ton whales, all members of the animal kingdom are composed...

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How different parts of a cell interact

How different parts of a cell interact

Learn about the different cell organelles, including the mitochondrion, the nucleus,...

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Diagram of the Golgi apparatus showing its stacked, curved membranes with labeled parts including cisternae, cis face, trans face, lumen, and various vesicles involved in cellular transport and secretion.

The Golgi apparatus plays an important role in the modification and transport of proteins

A membrane-bound organelle of eukaryotic cells, the Golgi apparatus is made up of...

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Diagram illustrating exocytosis in cell biology, showing how secretory vesicles from the Golgi apparatus fuse with the cell membrane to release proteins, with pathways for both regulated and unregulated secretion labeled.

Soluble and secretory proteins leaving the Golgi apparatus undergo exocytosis

The secretion of soluble proteins occurs constitutively. In contrast, the exocytosis...

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Portrait photograph of Bartolomeo Emilio Camillo Golgi, Italian scientist with a large mustache, wearing a dark suit and white shirt, facing slightly to his left.

The Golgi apparatus was observed in 1897 by Italian cytologist Camillo Golgi

In Camillo Golgi's early studies of nervous tissue, he had established a staining...

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Cutaway illustration of a eukaryotic animal cell showing labeled internal structures, including the nucleus, nucleolus, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, and other organelles.

Eukaryotic cell

Cutaway drawing of a eukaryotic cell.

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Illustration comparing three cell types: a round animal cell and an irregularly shaped plant cell, both showing labeled organelles, and an elongated bacteria cell with labeled structures such as flagella and capsule.

Bacterial, animal, and plant cells compared

Bacterial cells differ from animal cells and plant cells in several ways. One fundamental...

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Side-by-side labeled diagrams of a typical animal cell and a plant cell, showing internal structures such as nucleus, mitochondrion, endoplasmic reticulum, and unique features like chloroplasts and cell wall in the plant cell.

Organelles of eukaryotic cells

A defining feature of eukaryotic cells is the presence of membrane-bound organelles...

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Formation of lysosomes

Formation of lysosomes

Lysosomes form by budding off from the membrane of the trans-Golgi network. Macromolecules...

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