Organelle
In cell biology, an organelle is one of several structures with specialized functions, suspended in the cytoplasm of a eukaryotic cell. Organelles were historically identified through the use of microscopy, and were also identified through the use of cell fractionation.
A few large organelles probably originated from endosymbiont bacteria:
- chloroplast
- Other plastids, such as leucoplasts, amyloplasts, Etioplasts, Elaioplast, rhodoplasts, and chromoplasts.
- mitochondrion
Other organelles include:
- acrosome
- centriole
- cilium/ flagellum
- endoplasmic reticulum
- glyoxysome
- golgi apparatus
- lysosome
- melanosome
- myofibril
- nucleus
- parenthesome
- peroxisome
- ribosome
- vacuole
- vesicle
Other related structures:
- cytosol
- endomembrane system
- nucleosome
- microtubule
- cell membrane