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Make sketches of animal and plant cells. State the three differences between them.


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Animal cell:

  1. Animal cells are the basic unit of life in organisms of the kingdom animalia.
  2. An animal cell is a type of eukaryotic cell that lacks a cell wall and has a true, membrane-bound nucleus along with other cellular organelles.

Plant cell:

  1. Plant cells are the basic unit of life in organisms of the kingdom plantae.
  2. The plant cells have a cell wall which surrounds the cell membrane, in addition they have plastids.

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Animal cellPlant cell
1. Animal cells do not have a cell wall as their outermost covering cells. 1. Plant cells have a cell wall present in the outermost covering of cells.
2. Animal cells lack chloroplast, so they cannot perform the process of photosynthesis.2. Plants cells have chloroplast responsible for photosynthesis inside their cell.
3. In animal cells, vacuoles are present but are smaller in size compared to plant cells.3. Plant cells have a large vacuole present in the centre of the cell.


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