If you could take a cell from any organism — an alga, giant sequoia, condor, or your second cousin — and dive through its membrane into its clear
liquid cytoplasm interior, you would find that all life as we know it shares the same building blocks.
In healthy cells, RanGAP helps transport molecules through nuclear pores that connect a cell's
cytoplasm — the
liquid that fills most of a cell — and the nucleus — the central compartment containing genetic material.