Why do plant cells have larger vocuoles as compared to animal cell?

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Plant cells have more material to store in vacuoles like gum, sap, latex, resins etc. as compared to animal cells. So, plant cells have larger vacuoles as compared to animal cells.

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$\begin{matrix} Animal cells & Plant cells i. Animal cells have large single vacuole & Plant cells have many small vacuoles ii. Animal cells do not have plastids & Plant cells have plastids including chloroplast iii. Animal cells do not have cell wall & Plant cells have cell wall outside the plasma membrane iv. Animal cells are green in colour & Plant cells are not colored v. Lysosomes are always present & Lysosomes are rare \end{matrix}$

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\begin{matrix} A n i m a l c e l l s & P l a n t c e l l s i . A n i m a l c e l l s h a v e l a r g e s i n g l e v a c u o l e & P l a n t c e l l s h a v e m a n y, s m a l l v a c u o l e s i i . A n i m a l c e l l s d o n o t h a v e p l a s t i d s & P l a n t c e l l s h a v e p l a s t i d s i i i . A n i m a l c e l l s d o n o t h a v e c e l l w a l l & P l a n t c e l l s h a v e c e l l w a l l o u t s i d e t h e p l a s m a m e m b r a n e i v . A n i m a l c e l l s a r e g r e e n i n c o l o u r & P l a n t c e l l s a r e n o t c o l o u r e d v . L y s o s o m e s a r e a l w a y s p r e s e n t & L y s o s o m e s a r e r a r e \end{matrix}

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