Golgi Apparatus
The Golgi Apparatus acts as a packaging and sorting center for the cell. It is known as the post office of the cell. It looks like a stack of flattened tubular membranes that modify, sort and package proteins for their final destination within the cell. Common destinations for proteins inside the cell are either the cell membrane or lysosomes. Golgi bodies are stacks of flattened membranous stacks (they look like pancakes!). The Golgi Body temporarily stores protein which can then leave the cell via vesicles pinching off from the Golgi.
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