Question

What would happen to the life of a cell if there was no golgi apparatus?

Answer 1

Hint: Golgi apparatus is found in the eukaryotic cells only. It is not found in prokaryotic cells. It is responsible for packaging the material to different compartments of the cytoplasm and also responsible for secreting the material outside the cell. That’s why it is also known as packaging organelle.

Complete answer:
Camilo Golgi discovered golgi apparatus in the cell. It is not found in prokaryotic cells. It is found in almost every eukaryotic cell. But it is absent in the mature red blood cell, sieve tube of phloem in angiosperm and spermatozoa of bryophyte and pteridophytes etc.
Golgi apparatus forms the 2% of the cell volume. It consists of cisternae, golgi vacuoles and vesicles.
Cisternae: These are flat and double layered elongated structures which have swollen ends. They are present one over another.
Golgian vacuole: It is spherical in shape and found towards the concave side of cisternae in golgi apparatus.
Vesicles: These are the small sized circular structures which are found towards the convex phase of cisternae.
Functions of golgi body:
> Golgi body involved in secretion of material from the cell. Hence it is found to have a greater number in secretory cells for carrying out the function of secretion.
> It is involved in acrosome formation during spermiogenesis.
> It is also involved in lysosome formation.
> It is involved in cell plate formation in plants during the process of cell division. It is also involved in plasma membrane formation.
> It is involved in lipid metabolism such as glycosylation of lipid by glycosyl transferase.
> It is involved in pigment formation in retinal epithelial cells of the eye.
> It is also known as traffic police of cells because it modifies the secretory protein and targets the different location of the cytoplasm. It is also responsible for secretion of materials outside of the cell.
> If golgi apparatus is not found in the cell, then there is not found any secretion of material outside the cell. There are not found any targeting of molecules in the cytoplasm of the cell. Hence, it does not package the material in the cell. There are not found any lysosome formation and lipid metabolism is ceased in absence of a golgi body. The cell division is also affected in absence of golgi apparatus in cells.

Note: Golgi body is also known as traffic police of cells because it is responsible for targeting the molecules across the compartment of the cell. It is also involved in secretion of molecules outside the cell via secretory vesicles. It is involved in glycosylation of lipid via addition of glucose to the lipid.