Where would you find a golgi apparatus?

The Golgi apparatus is a type of organelle that is found inside the cells of your body. Its job is to package up proteins and ship them to different parts of the cell.

Your body is made up of trillions of cells, and each of your cells is like a tiny town with factories that make products and packaging centers that box up the products and ship them off. These cell factories are called organelles.

The Golgi apparatus is the only cell organelle to be named after a scientist. The visible characteristics of the organelle were first reported by Camillo Golgi (1843-1926) at a meeting of the Medical Society of Pavia on 19 April 1898 when he named it the ‘internal reticular apparatus’. Under a powerful microscope, the golgi look like a stack of pancakes. The number of ‘Golgi apparatus’ within a cell is variable. Animal cells tend to have fewer and larger Golgi apparatus. Plant cells can contain as many as several hundred smaller versions.

The Golgi apparatus floats in the cytoplasm of your cells. Cytoplasm is the jelly-like fluid inside the cell membrane. When you look in the cytoplasm, you'll find the Golgi apparatus near another organelle called the rough endoplasmic reticulum, or rough ER. These two organelles like to hang out in the same neighborhood because they work together. The rough ER makes proteins and sends them to the Golgi apparatus.