Biology · Glossary

What is Organelle, cytosol?

Also known as: organelle · cytosol

Definition 6.1 University Biology — Year 1 · Chapter 6 — Functional Organization of the Eukaryotic Cell

An organelle is a structure inside a cell with a definite composition and function; the membrane-bounded organelles are compartments whose interior differs in composition from the cytosol, the aqueous solution of the cytoplasm outside them. Membrane-bounded compartments: the nucleus, the endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi apparatus, lysosomes, peroxisomes, mitochondria, and in plants the plastids and the vacuole. Organelles without a membrane: ribosomes, the centrosome, the cytoskeleton.

A generalised animal cell cut open. The nucleus at the centre; around it the rough endoplasmic reticulum continuous with the nuclear envelope, the smooth reticulum, the Golgi stack and its vesicles, mitochondria, lysosomes, and the centrosome from which the microtubules radiate.
A generalised animal cell cut open. The nucleus at the centre; around it the rough endoplasmic reticulum continuous with the nuclear envelope, the smooth reticulum, the Golgi stack and its vesicles, mitochondria, lysosomes, and the centrosome from which the microtubules radiate.
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