• Question: What differences are there between a animal cell and a plant cell?

    Asked by to Edward, Ian, Mathew, Naomi, sakshisharda on 20 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Naomi Osborne answered on 20 Jun 2014:

      Plant and animal cells are similar in several ways – they both have a nucleus containing DNA, mitochondria to produce energy, ribosomes to make proteins, and a cell membrane.

      Plant cells have extra components that animals cells don’t have – they have a vacuole which contains sap to keep the cell turgid, a cell wall and chloroplast cells which is where photosynthesis occurs. They also store energy differently – plant cells store energy as starch, animals cells store it as glycogen 🙂

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