What are the differences between plant and animal cells?

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asked Mar 12 in Home Schooling by Indey4332 (200 points)
What are the differences between plant and animal cells?

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answered Mar 12 by Sandrabaker7152 (1,760 points)
The differences between plant and animals cells is that plant cells have a cell wall as well as a large central vacuole, chloroplasts and specialized plastids and animal cells don't have these.

Animal cells on the other hand have Lysosomes and centrosome and plant cells don't have these.

Plant cells have a cell wall that is composed and made up of cellulose as well as a cell membrane but animal cells don't.

And animal cells don't have a cell wall but do have a cell membrane.

Animal cells have centrioles, centrosomes, and lysosomes, whereas plant cells do not.

Plant cells have a cell wall, chloroplasts, plasmodesmata, and plastids used for storage, and a large central vacuole, whereas animal cells do not.

The key difference between animal cells and plant cells is that animal cells lack a cell wall and only have a cell membrane that is flexible and plant cells have a rigid cell wall which surrounds the cells membrane and provides structural support.

The chloroplasts that plant cells contain are organelles where photosynthesis takes place and allows them to convert light energy into chemical energy.

The large central vacuole that plant cells have stores water and nutrients and helps to maintain cell pressure and animal cells can have smaller vacuoles or lack them altogether.

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