The Golgi apparatus; a specialized structure inside cells that processes and packages proteins for transport throughout the cell.
Named after Italian scientist Camillo Golgi, who discovered this cellular structure in 1898. The term became standard in cell biology to refer specifically to this organelle.
Golgi apparatus is like the cell's post office—proteins come in as mail, get sorted and packaged into tiny envelopes, and get shipped to their destinations, all discovered by a scientist brilliant enough to see something invisible.
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