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GOLGI COMPLEX
The manufacturing and shipping center of a eukaryotic cell.

What is the Golgi complex?

The Golgi complex or Golgi apparatus is responsible for manufacturing, warehousing and shipping certain cellular products, particularly those from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Depending on the type of cell, there can be just a few complexes or there can be hundreds. Cells that specialize in secreting various substances typically have a high number of Golgi complexes.

What are some distinguishing characteristics?

A Golgi complex is composed of flat sacs that are stacked. Each stacked grouping has a membrane that separates the insides from the cell's cytosol (cyto-).

The Golgi complex is very polar. Membranes at one end of the stack differ in both composition and in thickness from those at the other end. One end acts as the "receiving" department and the other as the "shipping" department. The receiving department is closely associated with the ER. The shipping side produces vesicles that "ship" materials to other sites.

The Golgi complex modifies many products including proteins and phospholipids. A complex can also manufacture certain types of macromolecules.

2007-06-11 22:23:52 · answer #1 · answered by Pharmalolli 5 · 0 0

A Golgi body modifies, sorts, and packages proteins.

1. Little membrane bubbles called vesicles come to the Golgi body from the rough endoplasmic reticulum. The bubbles contain proteins.

2. The vesicles join with the Golgi body, adding the vesicle membrane to the membrane of the Golgi body, and putting the protein inside the disks of the Golgi body.

3. The Golgi body may modify the proteins, and it sorts the proteins out for various purposes.

4. The sorted proteins are pinched off into more little bubbles or vesicles made out of the membrane of the Golgi body.

5. The vesicles can be lysosomes that work inside the cell. Or the vesicles can be full of materials that are to be secreted from the cell. In that case, the vesicle moves to the cell membrane, and secretes the contents in a process called exocytosis.

... I'm not sure what you mean by the last part of your question.

2007-06-11 18:25:37 · answer #2 · answered by ecolink 7 · 0 0

the nucleus is composed of the DNA that's transcribed into an mRNA the ribosomes bind to the mRNA in the endoplasmic reticulum (making it seem tough) to translate the mRNA and synthesize a polypetide which then enters the golgi equipment to be submit-translationally changed and packaged to be despatched to the cellular membran from the place it extremely is released.

2016-10-09 00:58:27 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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