Home Biology BIOLOGY: A Textbook for Grade 10 Chapter 1: Introduction to Biology and its Branches; The Study of Cell as the Basic Unit of Life: Movement of Substances across Cell Membrane
E-Lecture - Comparison of Plant and Animal Cells
Plant Cells
Possess cellulose, cell wall.
Contain plastids that contain pigments such as chlorophyll.
Have, large central vacuole with cell sap that contain solutions of sugar, salts, etc.
Have tonoplast around vacuoles are regular in shape.
Have no centrioles except in cells of lower forms of plants such as mosses.
Animal Cells
Possess no cell-wall.
Contain no plastid.
Do not have large vacuoles but they have smaller ones such as contractile and food vacuoles.