what is the difference between a plant cell and a animal cell???

Answer 1

The primary differences between plant cells and animal cells are:

The greatest difference between plant and animal cells occurs at the cell membrane. The cell membrane of a typical plant cell is covered with a protective wall of cellulose. The cellulose makes the membrane stiff, and thus the plant cell's structure is very rigid. This gives plants stiffness, and allows them to grow tall. Cellulose is secreted by the plant cell's cytoplasm. Thus, the plant cell has a cell wall, while the animal cell does not. The plant's cell wall may also contain lignin, a component of wood. The cell wall allows a very large pressure to be built up inside the cell, through osmosis. Animal cells, on the other hand, have more flexible membranes. So animal cells are much more diverse in their shapes.

Most of the space inside plant cells is made of of a large vacuole containing cell sap. Vacuoles in some types of plant cells serve to build stalks and stems. Animal cells never contain large vacuoles.

Plant cells contain plastids. Animal cells do not. The most noteworthy plastids are chloroplasts. These contain chlorophyll, a green chemical necessary for photosynthesis, which also gives plants their colour.

Animal cells have centrioles, which help in mitosis. Plant cells do not.

Plant cells have glyoxysomes. Animal cells do not.



plant cells have some additional specialized structures. Many animals have skeletons to give their body structure and support. Plants do not have a skeleton for support and yet plants don't just flop over in a big spongy mess. This is because of a unique cellular structure called the cell wall. The cell wall is a rigid structure outside of the cell membrane composed mainly of the polysaccharide cellulose. As pictured at left, the cell wall gives the plant cell a defined shape which helps support individual parts of plants. In addition to the cell wall, plant cells contain an organelle called the chloroplast. The chloroplast allow plants to harvest energy from sunlight. Specialized pigments in the chloroplast (including the common green pigment chlorophyll) absorb sunlight and use this energy to complete the chemical reaction:

6 CO2 + 6 H2O + energy (from sunlight) C6H12O6 + 6 O2

In this way, plant cells manufacture glucose and other carbohydrates that they can store for later use.

Answer 2

Chloroplasts would be the most noticeable difference, as well as the fact that plant cells have a rigid cellulose cell wall, while animal cells have only an outer plasma membrane, and no cell walls.

Plant cells do not have centrioles, and for plant cells, most of their 'insides' are taken up by a large central vacuole, which isn't the case in animal cells.

Answer 3

In addition to the cell membrane, nucleus and cytoplasm of an animal cell, plant cells have a cellulose cell wall, a large vacoule containing cell sap and chloroplasts (which contain chlorophyll for photosynthesis).

That is the standard KS3 and KS4 level of info you need.

Answer 4

Plants have cell walls and animals have cell membranes

Answer 5

the most main difference is plant cell have cell wall but animal cell does not cell wall
the animal call have centrioles whereas the plant cell doesnot have
the plant cell have chloroplast where as animal cell doesnot have

Answer 6

plant cell hasa cell wall, central vacuole and chloroplasts, animal cell has just the plasma membrane, so duz the plant cell, but its got that wall, and multiple vacuoles, unlike the plants, and no chloroplats, hope that helps

Answer 7

Hydra Viridissima has chloroplasts in some cells because zoochlorellae live as symbionts in the endodermal cells.

This probably doesn't count though.

But it is interesting.

Answer 8

you keep naughty plants in a plant cell and naughty animals in a animal cell.

Answer 9

both cells have nucleus...plant cells have chloroplasts and a cell wall...they are more square than animal cells are rounder

Answer 10

Remember that animals cells contain mitochondria which is neccesary to respire in their muscles.

This is not to say that plants do not respire (they do) but they tend to use natural features such as cappillary action in the xylem and the phloem to trasport sugars and water, and also osmosis.