Here you go! 😀
Hope this helps…

PLANT CELLS: http://www.plantcell.org/

ANIMAL CELLS: http://www.purchon.com/biology/cells.htm

To sum it up:
plant cells have a cell wall and animal cells don’t!

Animal cells and plant cells are very similar, but…

Plant Cells:
Cell Wall around cell membrane, large Central Vacuole(holds water for structural support; also called Turgor)
Plastids called Chloroplasts which perform photosynthesis

plant cells are also more structured than animal cells, they form a certain hard shape (which holds the plant up i guess) whilst animal cells sort of form a blob, something to do with the cell wall as that increases the outermost structure of the cell.

there are added organnelles like the vauole (storage area) which is only in plant cells, also plant cells have cell walls, animal cells don’t ect…

hope it helps 😉

……I read somewhere which says that small vacuol do appear at certain animal cells..(maybe I’m wrong….I have poor memory…)
And I’m pretty sure that plant cells able to make carbohydrates which provide energy….animal cells can not make carbohydrates themselves…

Well at GCSE level I was told animal cells don’t have a vacuole…now at AS level I’ve been told they do…confusing!

Generally, animal cells can have small vacuoles or none. The vacuoles get larger in pathologic cases.

ANIMAL:
1: no cell wall
2: can make skin, hair, ect,
3: can/cannot have a vacoule
4: ( plants dont have mitochondria, do they?)
PLANT:
1: outer cell wall
2: chloroplasts whcih make them green and are used in photosynthesis
3: DO have a vacuole.

and…..(something else….really bad memory..)

Animal, 4/ Yes they do. Besides photosynthesis, they also respire, and have mitochondria.

But usually plants’ mitochondria are smaller in amounts that animals’ mitochondria..

animal cells can have vacuoles for storage but generally not and the 1’s that do are small

Is that so? My book regards lysosomes as being the counter part of Vacuoles in Animal cells.

Also they serve as a an Enzyme storage as well as digestion–hence the correlation to lysosomes.

??I think that vacuoles are used as a starch storage and the rest of metabolism…but not enzymes….am I wrong?

Sorry to dissapoint you victor but he is right. Vacules are the counterparts, so to speak, of lysosoms in the animal cell, reason for some scholars to name them fitolysosomes. Here are the roles of vaculoes in plants(the ones i can remember):
-in cellular digestion(same as animal lysosomes)
-in depositing: sucrose(enters the vacuole by a H+ assisted antiporter), Na,Ca(that also enter the vacuole by a proton antiporter), Cl, nitrates(enter the cell through channels)
– in regulating cellular volume(as we know, in plants the vacuole is 70-80% of the cell volume)
-in polenisation(they accumulate antocyan pigments)
The vacuole has an extremely well developed H+ pump, that can give the vacuole a pH of even 2! This is a mechanism that is characteristic to plant cells:
UTP –> UMP +Pi~Pi
It is one of the only cases where uridine triphosphate is used as an energy source in the living world. The vacuole’s H+ pump works on pirophosphate

Now, the plant cell doesn’t store starch in vacuoles, it stores it in a special kind of plastid called amiloplast.

Check the alberts book on the subject for more info, that is where i learned all this stuff..

yeah, but lysosomes are in plant cells too, so, why would they be there?

There are no lysosomes in plant cells. There are just some particles to do some work.

Find the differences :wink:.

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nice pictures. where did you get them from?

Here you have the URLs :wink::

– Animal cell:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/cells/anima … alcell.jpg

– Plant cell:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/cells/plant … ntcell.jpg

plant cells have chloroplasts and animal cells don’t. animal cells have centroils and plants don’t. plant cells ahve a cell wal and animal cells don’t.