GOLGI APPARATUS (GOLGI BODY OR GOLGI COMPLEX)


  • It is cellular organelles present in most of the eukaryotic cell.
  • It helps in packaging of protein before they are sent to their destination and acts as a post office of the cell.
  • In animals cell it is present near the nucleus in extensive network form.
  • In plant cell there are many free subunits of golgi apparatus  called dictyosomes.
  • In one end there is cisternae is present called cis face of golgi apparatus and another face there is budded of as vesicles called trans face of golgi apparatus.
  • Golgi apparatus is absent in in bacteria , blue-green algae, mature sperm, RBC of mammals.
Function

  • The main function of golgi apparatus is secretion.
  • It processing and packaging of various cellular secretion.
  • it also help in synthesis of cell wall ,plasma membrane and lysosomes.








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