Question

List the diffrences between the cells you see in this exercise (cheek cells) and the cells you saw in onion peel with respect to the following:

(a) Presence or absence of cell wall:

(b) Presence or absence of large vacoule:

(c) Differnce in shape:

Answer 1

Onion cells have cell walls. Cheek cells have no cell walls.
Onion cells have a large permanent vacuole at the center, so its nucleus is squeezed to the edge of the cell. Cheek cells have no large, permanent vacuoles and its nucleus is roughly at the center of the cell.