The Golgi apparatus packages and transports macromolecules and proteins within eukaryotic cells, which is essential for protein transport. It consists of flattened membrane sacs and vesicles that receive proteins from the rough ER and fuse with the plasma membrane to transport proteins outside the cell. The Golgi apparatus is allied with the rough ER and plasma membrane for protein transport and relies on vesicle transport between its structures.

1. Golgi ApparatusMaureen Wu, HayyanHaroon, Margaret Poppe

2. FunctionPackages macromolecules for transport to other places in the cell.Essential to protein transportWithout this system proteins could not be transported.Essential to all eukaryotic cells

3. Relevant structuresFlattened stacks of membranesSacks called vesicles that fuse with the cells plasma membraneVesicles also carry proteins from the Rough ER to the Golgi apparatus.

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5. AllianceRough ER because the Golgi apparatus transports proteins for the Rough ERPlasma Membrane because the vesicles fuse with the plasma membrane to pass proteins outside of the cell

6. Who Should Go?Vacuole because they are only temporary storage for goods, that we think the cell can function without. Also, we think that relativly they are less important.

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