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Especially plants have which of the organelles mentioned below, which is absent in an animal cell?

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Mitochondria
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Golgi apparatus
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Plastid
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Lysosome
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Solution

The correct option is A Plastid
Plastids are the cytoplasmic organelles found only in plant cells. On the basis of pigments present, plastids are of three types:
(i) Leucoplasts (colourless plastids)
(ii) Chloroplasts (green coloured plastids)
(iii) Chromoplasts (coloured plastids other than green).
Other organelles given in options as mitochondria, Golgi apparatus and lysosomes are present in plant cell as well as in animal cells.

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