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How do golgi bodies work?

Answer 1

Golgi bodies serve to package and secrete proteins meant for intracellular or extracellular destinations.

Golgi bodies pack and label goods to be transported from their sites of synthesis, acting a bit like post offices.

A cell's endomembrane system includes golgi bodies, which are membrane-bound vesicles containing proteins.

A collection of glycosylation enzymes found in golgi bodies bind different sugar monomers to proteins as they pass through the apparatus.

The complexity of golgi bodies varies amongst living forms.

Large Golgi bodies are a characteristic of antibody plasma B cells, which are important in immunity systems and have a lot of secretory activity.

This page describes the Golgi apparatus.

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Answer 2

Isabella Anderson

Proteins and lipids are modified, sorted, and packaged into vesicles by golgi bodies, also known as golgi apparatus, in order to be transported to different locations either inside or outside of the cell.

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