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The main difference between plant cells and animal cells is


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Plant cells lack chloroplast which are found in animals cells
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Animal cells have thick cell wall, plant cells lack
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Vacuoles are small and many in animal cell and single large in plant cell
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None of the above
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The correct option is C Vacuoles are small and many in animal cell and single large in plant cell

Below is a list of the major differences :

1) A plant cell is usually larger in size. An animal cell is comparatively smaller in size.

2) A plant cell is enclosed by a rigid cellulose cell wall in addition to a plasma membrane. An animal cell is enclosed by a thin plasma membrane only.

3) A plant cell can not change in shape. but an animal cell can often change its shape.

4) A plant cell has a cell wall, chloroplasts, other specialized plastids, and a large central vacuole but an animal cell do not have one.

5) In plant cell do not have centrosome, lysosomes but animal cell have all these.

6) In a plant cell nucleus lies on one side in the peripheral cytoplasm, in an animal cell nucleus lies in the center.

7) in A plant cell reserve food are in the form of starch but in animal, the cell is usually glycogen


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