Sunday 26 August 2012

Differences between plant cell and animal cell

Animal cell
Plant cell


                          Plant cell
      Animal cell
It has a cell wall made up of cellulose
It lacks cell wall
Plant is larger than animal cell
Animal cell comparatively smaller in size
Plant cell has large vacuoles
Usually animal cell lacks vacuoles. If they are present they occur in very small sizes
Centrosome is present only in the cells of lower plants
All animal cells have centrosomes
Lysosomes are present only in eukaryotic plant cells
Lysosomes are present in all animal cells
It contains plastids
Plastids are absent
Starch is the storage material
Glucose is the storage material

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