What is the difference between a plant and an animal?

Answer 1

An animal can piss on a plant,a plant can't piss on an animal.

Answer 2

What a good question! :) There are many differences between a plant and animal - the most basic is probably that a plant has a cell wall and an animal doesn't - to go into more detail could take all day! As life evolved on the planet it separated into groups called kingdoms. The main ones of these are plant, animal, bacterial, and fungal, though there are some more. That means that we are as fundamentally different to plants as we are to bacteria or fungi (mushrooms). What I think is really interesting is how much we are the same. We use the same cellular organelle for respiration (turning food into energy) as plants do, and there are many more examples. This is a fascinating subject - look through some websites or textbooks and see what other examples you can come up with, focus on cell structure and processes that work within the cell. Hope that helps a bit!

BTW animals are not more complex than plants - in many ways the opposite is true, and not even nearly all animals have nervous systems!!!

Answer 3

on the cellular level, plants have a cell wall in addition to the plasma membrane which animals have. A fungus is not a plant. Hence, a difference is that plants make their own food by photo or chemo synthesis. There are some weird canivorous (actually insectivorous) plants though.
Plants generally have a more limited mobility than animals

Answer 4

This is one of those questions where every answer will include an exception. My answer would be that animals produce `dung, and have a brain,nervous system,or `control centre`.Very many plants can be propagated naturally from the mother plant,ie cuttings and layers, without the messy business required of (most animals) to propagate.

Answer 5

i can't wait for these answers the definition used to be mobility ( until they found mobile plants )

the real answer is complexity ( with animals being more complex ) the definition at any time is subject to change as with all science - more information makes for new definitions

when you read your answers try to apply them to a virus - we didn't even see them as living until recently - not all life can be classified as plant or animal

NOTE the answer above applies to photosynthesis ( the fact that plants use the sun - SORRY but we have found plants that DO NOT -fungi ) like i said (or did i ) it is a combination of traits and not always clear

Answer 6

Plants are a major group of living things including familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, ferns, and mosses. About 350,000 species of plants, defined as seed plants, bryophytes, ferns and fern allies, have been estimated to exist. As of 2004, some 287,655 species had been identified, of which 258,650 are flowering and 15,000 bryophytes. Plants are mostly autotrophs, organisms that obtain energy from sunlight or organisms that make their own food. Most plants carry out a process called photosynthesis, which occurs in the chloroplasts of plants.


Animal
Animals are a major group of organisms, classified as the kingdom Animalia or Meta­zoa. In general they are multi­cellular, capable of locomotion, responsive to their environment, and feed by consuming other organisms. Their body plan becomes fixed as they develop, usually early on in their development as embryos, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on.

The word "animal" comes from the Latin word animal, of which animalia is the plural, and is derived from anima, meaning vital breath or soul. In everyday usage animal refers to any member of the animal kingdom that is not a human being, and sometimes excludes insects (although including such arthropods as crabs). The use of the word animal in law typically reflects the common pre-scientific use of the word, roughly equivalent to what modern biology would classify as nonhuman mammal. For example, wildlife laws commonly use phrases such as "animals, birds and fish."

The biological definition of the word includes human beings. Therefore, when biologists use the word "animal" they refer to all members of the animal kingdom.

Answer 7

Animal:

A multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia, differing from plants in certain typical characteristics such as capacity for locomotion, nonphotosynthetic metabolism, pronounced response to stimuli, restricted growth, and fixed bodily structure.

Plant:

Any of various photosynthetic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae characteristically producing embryos, containing chloroplasts, having cellulose cell walls, and lacking the power of locomotion.

Answer 8

Uh...ones a plant, and the other is an animal.

Answer 9

plants grow in the ground and animals dont and animals can walk and runn and make noise plants can not.

Answer 10

Aside from animals feeling pian?