Question

What is the importance of golgi body in spermatozoa?

Answer 1

This chapter discusses the importance of the Golgi complex in the formation of almost all the structures typical of the more evolved sperm types. In the primitive types of sperm, the Golgi is clearly associated only with the secretion of the acrosome, whereas axoneme, nucleus, and mitochondria have obviously a different and independent origin. But the accessory organelles characteristic of the more evolved sperm types (crystalline rod of mitochondria1 derivatives, glycoprotein content of accessory tubules, ordinate accessory bodies, definitive plasma membrane, with related organelles, are formed in close association with the Golgi activity. The evidence is that all the structures of the spermatozoon are already in the young spermatid whose nucleus is inactive and that they are formed at the same time. The better known process of Golgian secretion is that of the acrosome and is therefore applicable to many other organelles that are typical of more complex models of the spermatozoa. The acrosome, considered as the only Golgi product, characterizes the primitive spermatozoa, as, for instance, those of the echinoderms.