In this video, we're going to begin our introduction to Eukaryotic Organelles or organs inside of the cells. Recall from our previous lesson videos that eukaryotic cells contain several membrane-bound organelles. Moving forward in our course, we're going to discuss many of these membrane-bound organelles. It's important to note that both animal and plant cells are eukaryotic, which means they both contain eukaryotic organelles. However, it's also important to note that some of the organelles of animal and plant cells differ from each other.
In our example of eukaryotic organelles below, notice that we're showing you our representation of an animal cell on the left-hand side and our representation of a plant cell on the right-hand side. The organelles in the middle are shared between both animal and plant cells, while the organelles on the far left are only found or associated with animal cells, and the organelles on the far right are only found and associated with plant cells. Keep in mind that these are just general representations of animal cells and plant cells, but not all animal cells and plant cells will have all these organelles; they are generalized representations.
When discussing the animal cell, we will focus on how lysosomes are characteristic organelles found only in animal cells but not in plant cells. In plant cells, we will discuss how chloroplasts and cell walls are characteristic of only plant cells, not so much in animal cells. In the middle, once again, we have organelles that are common to both animal and plant cells. Moving forward in our course, we will elaborate more on each of these organelles.
For example, the mitochondria, which are found not just in eukaryotic cells, but also in prokaryotic cells, although we're not discussing those here. Both types of cells also have a rough ER or a rough endoplasmic reticulum, as well as a smooth endoplasmic reticulum, as shown here. They also possess structures called ribosomes, which are these tiny little blue dots that we're illustrating. They both have a Golgi apparatus and will also have peroxisomes, as seen here.
We will be discussing each of these organelles in their own separate videos moving forward. This is merely for you to understand what we will be discussing moving forward. This concludes our brief introduction to eukaryotic organelles, and once again, moving forward in our course, we will talk a lot more about each of these organelles. So, I'll see you all in our next video.