Both the mitochondria and chloroplasts (in plants) of eukaryotic cells contain their own genetic information.
This is leftover from what is thought to be a symbiosis in early eukaryotic cells. It is assumed that these organelles were originally completely separate organisms, which found their way into larger organisms' cells due to the advantageous symbiotic relationship they could offer each other. Having compartments in cells turned out to be a massive evolutionary advantage, as it meant more complex, more specialised and more efficient reactions could take place in different organelles, where the conditions could be varied to suit the enzymes.
Although much of the DNA (genetic material) that was originally in these organelles has now found its way into the host cell's nucleus with the rest of the cell's DNA, there is some still left in the organelles. Indeed, they still produce a few proteins themselves using this genetic material, but they also require the other proteins that are synthesised in the rest of the eukaryotic cell.
The organelles that contain genetic material are:
-chloroplasts
They were once individual organisms themselves but had been engulfed by a eukaryote or a prokaryote, a process known as endosymbiosis
-mitochondria
like the chloroplasts, mitochondria were thought to be individual organisms, purple bacteria, later engulfed by a eukaryote or prokaryote in the same process (endosymbiosis)
Mitochondria and chloroplasts
Mitochondria and chloroplasts
Mitocondria contain mDNA.
The organelle that contains our DNA with all of our genetic information is the nucleus.
cells
The nucleus is the organelle that has DNA because the nucleus also has chromosomes which store directions that carry information that controls the cell's activities.
membrane-bound organelles
The cytoplasm transports and delivers information to the nucleus
The nucleus
Mitochondria and chloroplasts. The question asks for organelles with their OWN genetic material. The material from the nucleus already belongs to the cell. Those two evolved from symbiotic prokaryotes and maintain their own DNA.
The organelle that contains our DNA with all of our genetic information is the nucleus.
In the DNA on chromosomes, found in the nucleus (of Eukaryotic cells).
Chromatin are long, uncoiled strands of DNA. Chromatin contain the genetic information of the cell. Cytoplasm is the clear fluid or gel that surrounds the organelles outside the nucleus.
cells
the chromosomes
A prokaryote aka a bacterium doesn't contain a nucleus but it does contain small ribosomes.
The cell nucleus and the mitochondria contain genetic information in the form of DNA.
polynucleotide that contain genetic material that found in nucleus .
The nucleus is the organelle that has DNA because the nucleus also has chromosomes which store directions that carry information that controls the cell's activities.
The genetic information is stored in the NUCLEUS!