Golgi

American  

[gohl-jee, gawl-jee] / ˈgoʊl dʒi, ˈgɔl dʒi /

noun

1. Camillo 1843?–1926, Italian physician and histologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1906.

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Golgi British  

/ ˈɡɔldʒi /

noun

1. Camillo (kaˈmillo). 1844–1926, Italian neurologist and histologist, noted for his work on the central nervous system and his discovery in animal cells of the bodies known by his name: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1906

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Example Sentences

The Golgi apparatus modifies, sorts and packages proteins to be sent to their final destinations, whether that's within or outside of the cell.

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Scientists have long studied membrane-bound compartments, called organelles, in plant cells, such as the Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, and most significantly, the nucleus, where DNA gets copied and transcribed into RNA.

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To do this, the researchers surveyed Golgi structure in representatives of various animal taxa and closely related unicellular eukaryotes.

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Part of the excitement surrounding this discovery is that humans, plants, and all eukaryotic organisms have Golgi bodies in their cells.

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The team found indirect evidence of cytoskeletons, as well as platy structures that suggest the presence of internal vesicles in which the plates were formed -- perhaps ancestral to Golgi bodies, present in modern eukaryotic cells.

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