Question

Which of the following will be the difference between an onion peel cell and a human cheek cell?

• A. The ribosomes will be larger in the onion cell compared to the human cell.
• B. The cell wall will be absent in human cheek cell.
• C. Plastids are present in the onion cell.
• D. True nucleus is present in human cheek cells and not in onion cell.

Answer 1

Answer: (B), (C)

The correct options are
B The cell wall will be absent in human cheek cell.
C Plastids are present in the onion cell.

The major difference between a plant and animal cells are the presense of cell wall and plastids (more specifically chloroplasts). Other differences that you maybe able to note at a single glance will be that, the nucleus will be to the side in a plant cell compared to the centre aligned nucleus in an animal cell. Also the animal cells will be round or irregular in shape, while plant cells are almost always rectangular in shape.