Golgi Apparatus
The Golgi Apparatus is a stack of flattened interconnected sacs called cisternae.
Vesicles bud off from the rough ER are directed along the cytoskeleton to the Golgi and fuse with the cis face of the Golgi.
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Key terms in this lesson
- rough endoplasmic reticulum
- A network of membranes studded with ribosomes, continuous with the nuclear envelope, involved in the synthesis and transport of proteins.
- lysosome
- A vesicle containing hydrolytic enzymes that breaks down waste material, old organelles and pathogens.
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