A Plant Cell And An Animal Cell : A Comparision

Both the plant cell and an animal cell are Eukaryotic cells. They have various similarities but have distinct difference because each of them belongs to two different kingdom. However the different between a plant cell and an animal cell is as follows :-

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Sr. No.	Characters	A Plant Cell	An Animal Cell
01	Cell wall	Present , Thick, Hard, Rigid, Non-elastic & Porous	Absent
02	Cell Membrane	Present , found beneath cell wall	Present , Cell is surrounded by a thin, elastic cell membrane
03	Middle Lamella	Present & Cells are joined by Middle Lamella	Absent , Cells are joined by various types of joints
04	Shape	Definite	Indefinite
05	Size	Big , up to 100µm	Small
06	Osmotic Nature	Cells became swallow , but not raptured	Cells are raptured after swallow
07	Nucleus	Due to the present of a big vacuole , nucleus is situated on the peripheral area	As vacuole absent , the nucleus is situated on the center area
08	Vacuole	Present , Large in shape	Absent  or  Very Small in Shape
09	Contractile Vacuole	Absent	Present , for remove of excess water from cell
10	Metabolism	Have the ability to synthesize the Amino Acid, Co-enzymes and Vitamins	Not able to synthesize the Amino Acid , Co-enzymes and Vitamins
11	Stored food	In the form of Starch	In the form of Glycogen
12	Plastids	Present , due to this plant cells become coloured	Absent , only found in Euglena
13	Photosynthesis	Present	Absent except Euglena
14	Mitochondria	Less in number	Vary in number
		Tubular cristae is found	Plate like cristae is found
15	Chromosome	Big in size	Small in size
16	Lysosomes	Absent	Present
17	Golgi Comples	More in numbers , Oftenly called Dictyosome	Single or less in number
18	Centrosome	Absent except lower class plant	Present
19	Desmosome	Cells are jointed by middle lamella	Cells are jointed by various joints through desmosomes
20	Cytokinesis	Cytoplasm always divides through Cell Plate	Cytoplasm always divides through Furrow
21	Glyoxysomes	Present in some plants	Absent
22	Crystals	Present , various types	Absent

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A Plant Cell

An Animal Cell