Question

State 3 differences between animal and plant cells.

The 3 differences are that the animal cells are smaller and have no cell wall like a plant cell does and a animal cell has many vacuoles where as the plant cell has only one vacuoles

Answer 1

Plant Cell Animal Cell

Cell Shape

Square/rectangular Irregular/round

Cell Wall

Present Absent

Plasma Membrane

Present Present

Endoplasmic Reticulum

Present Present

Nucleus

Present and lies on one side of the cell Present and lies in the centre of the cell

Lysosomes

Present but are very rare Present

Centrosomes

Absent Present

Golgi Apparatus

Present Present

Cytoplasm

Present Present

Ribosomes

Present Present

Plastids

Present Absent

Vacuoles

Few large or a single, centrally positioned vacuole Usually small and numerous

Cilia

Absent Present in most of the animal cells

Mitochondria

Present but fewer in number Present and are numerous

Mode of Nutrition

Primarily autotrophic Heterotrophic