What are the similarities and differences between plant and animal cells?

Answer 1

They are quite similar and quite different at the same time. This is the definition given by Wikipedia of both cells. I know, not very imaginative answer, but it is quite complex!

Plant cells are quite different from the cells of the other eukaryotic kingdoms' organisms. Their distinctive features are:

* A large central vacuole (enclosed by a membrane, the tonoplast), which maintains the cell's turgor and controls movement of molecules between the cytosol and sap.
* A cell wall made up of cellulose and protein, and in many cases lignin, and deposited by the protoplast on the outside of the cell membrane. This contrasts with the cell walls of fungi, which are made of chitin, and prokaryotes, which are made of peptidoglycan.
* The plasmodesmata, linking pores in the cell wall that allow each plant cell to communicate with other adjacent cells. This is different from the network of hyphae used by fungi.
* Plastids, especially chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll, the pigment that gives plants their green color and allows them to perform photosynthesis.
* Plant groups without flagella (including conifers and flowering plants) also lack centrioles that are present in animal cells.
An animal cell is a form of eukaryotic cell which make up many tissues in animals. The animal cell is distinct from other eukaryotes, most notably plant cells, as they lack cell walls and chloroplasts, and they have smaller vacuoles. Due to the lack of a rigid cell wall, animal cells appear to be circular (though are often deformed by surrounding cells) under microscopes - in three dimensions the cells are normally spherical. Human cells are biologically categorized as animal cells.


The most significant organelles of an animal cell include:

* Cell membrane***
* Cytoplasm
* Cytoskeleton
* Golgi apparatus
* Mitochondria
* Endoplasmic reticulum[ ER] including ribosome
* Lysosome
* Peroxisome
* Vacuole
* Microtubule
* Vesicle
* Nucleus

Answer 2

Plant cells have different structures from animal cells.

Answer 3

the similarities outwiegh the differences. Plants have cell walls, vacuoles and chloroplasts. Unlike animal cells, plant cells also lack centrioles