How can you tell a plant cell from an animal cell when looking in a microscope? Son forget text at school?

Answer 1

The most obvious way is to look for a cell wall. Plants have cell walls and animals do not.

Answer 2

A plant cell has a cell wall around it, giving it a rigid shape. An animal cell has no cell wall.

A plant cell contains chloroplasts which are green things within the cell (when you look down the microscope). These are used by the plant to make energy from the sun for it to use. An animal cell has no chloroplasts as an animal gets its energy through eating.

A plant cell contains large vacuoles and an animal cell contains small or no vacuoles. A vacuole is a large fluid filled sac within the cell membrane.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

This pdf may be of some use particulary page 6. The main difference is that plants have a cell wall in addition to an outer membrane so that should be a visible difference. Also plants will have a chloroplast whereas animals won't.

Answer 4

There are a few features that differentiate plant cells from animal cells:

1. Plant cells have cell walls.
2. Plant cells have large central storage vacuoles.
3. Plant cells have plastids (chloroplasts).

These are all features found in plant cells that aren't present in animal cells. In addition:

4. Centrioles are unique to animal cells.

These are the main differences I can think of. Hopefully your son knows about each of these organelles and their functions!

Answer 5

Plant cells have cell walls. Both have a cell membrane inside that. Plant cells have chloroplasts with chlorophyll that are green.

Answer 6

Animal cells tend to be more scattered inconsistent in shape while plant cells appear to look more like stacked bricks.

Answer 7

You look for the clorophil in the cell. animals do not have that

Answer 8

animal ones are round mostly

plant ones are squarish