Question

WRITE ANY 7 MAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PLANT CELL AND ANIMAL CELL?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Plant Cell Animal Cell

Cell Shape

Square or rectangular in shape Irregular or round in shape

Cell Wall

Present Absent

Plasma/Cell 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

Answer 2

Explanation:

How do plant and animal cells differ?

Both plant and animal cells are eukaryotic, so they contain membrane-bound organelles like the nucleus and mitochondria.

However, plant cells and animal cells do not look exactly the same or have all of the same organelles, since they each have different needs. For example, plant cells contain chloroplasts since they need to perform photosynthesis, but animal cells do not..

Both animal and plant cells have mitochondria, but only plant cells have chloroplasts. Plants don’t get their sugar from eating food, so they need to make sugar from sunlight. This process (photosynthesis) takes place in the chloroplast. Once the sugar is made, it is then broken down by the mitochondria to make energy for the cell. Because animals get sugar from the food they eat, they do not need chloroplasts: just mitochondria.

Both plant and animal cells have vacuoles. A plant cell contains a large, singular vacuole that is used for storage and maintaining the shape of the cell. In contrast, animal cells have many, smaller vacuoles.

Plant cells have a cell wall, as well as a cell membrane. In plants, the cell wall surrounds the cell membrane. This gives the plant cell its unique rectangular shape. Animal cells simply have a cell membrane, but no cell wall...

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