Question

Differentiate between plant cell and animal cell.

Answer 1

Plant cell:

1. Plant cells contain chloroplasts since they need to perform photosynthesis, and also contains cell wall, and vacuole.

Animal cell:

1. Animal cells do not consist of the cell wall and chloroplast and that mainly differentiates them from plant cells.

Plant cell	Animal cell
1. A plant cell is surrounded by a rigid cell wall.	1. An animal cell does not have a cell wall.
2. Plant cells have plastids.	2. Animal cells do not have plastids.
3. A large vacuole is present in the plant cell.	3. There are very small vacuoles as compared to plant cells seen in animal cells.
4. These are larger in size.	4. These are smaller in size.
5. Centrosomes are absent in plant cells.	5. Animal cells have centrosomes.