In this video, I'm going to introduce our map of the lesson on Eukaryotic Organelles, which is down below right here. And so this is actually a map of our lesson moving forward in our course. And so that means that you can use this image like a map, and you can actually use it to make predictions about what direction we're going to head into moving forward with our videos. And so let me explain to you how this map works. It works, starting at the top here.
So we have eukaryotic cell organelles at the very, very top. And then moving forward through our lesson, we're going to be exploring the leftmost branches first. And then once we've explored the leftmost branches, we'll start to explore the right branches. So for example, we're going to start here at eukaryotic cell organelles, then we're going to explore the leftmost branches first. So we'll talk about the endomembrane system.
Then we'll talk about the components that are part of protein secretion, which include the nucleus, the endoplasmic reticulum, the rough ER and smooth ER, the Golgi apparatus, and the cell membrane. And then once we've explored the leftmost branches, what we're going to do is we're going to zoom out and start to explore the right branches, which includes cellular digestion, lysosomes, peroxisomes, and vacuoles. And then once we've explored all of these branches over here on the left, we're going to zoom back out and start to explore the new branch over here, energy-related organelles, and then talk about the mitochondria and the chloroplasts. And then once we've covered these, we're going to move on to the next branch and talk about the cytoskeleton, which includes microfilaments, intermediate filaments, and microtubules, and has a lot of resemblance to actual skeletons, which is why we've got this little skeleton here. And then once we've covered the cytoskeleton components, last but not least, we'll move on to the cell junctions at the end, tight junctions, anchoring junctions, gap junctions, and plasmodesmata.
And so this is basically the way that we're going to cover videos moving forward in our course in that fashion, exploring the leftmost branches first. And so what this means is that you should be referring back to this map, as we move forward in our course, so that you can know exactly what direction we're headed in and how much is left within our lesson. And so keeping that in mind, of course, we're going to start off by exploring the leftmost branches first. So we're going to talk about the endomembrane system in our next lesson video. And so I'll see you all there.