The Golgi Apparatus is a stack of flattened interconnected sacs called cisternae.Vesicles that bud off from the rough ER are directed along the cytoskeleton to the Golgi and fuse with the cis face of the Golgi.The Golgi modifies these proteins, for example, by adding carbohydrate chains to form glycoproteins. They are then packaged into Golgi vesicles which bud off the trans face of the Golgi.These vesicles may be secretory vesicles which are transported to the cell membrane by microtubules and fuse with the cell membrane and release their contents to the exterior of the cell by exocytosis.The vesicles could also be lysosomes or contain enzymes used by the cell.
Golgi Apparatus
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Specification: AQA Biology (7401), AS-level, 3.2.1.1 Structure of eukaryotic cells. Topic: Cell Structure.
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- 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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