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Plant and Animal Cell

SIZE AND SHAPE

DEFINITION

Both plant and animal cells are eukaryotic, so they contain membrane-bound organelles like the nucleus and mitochondria.

• Animal cells are generally smaller than plant cells with their cells ranging from 10-30um in length. Animal cells shape and sizes vary greatly from irregular shapes to round shapes, most defined by the function they perform.
• Plant cells are larger than animal cells with the cell size ranging from 10um-100um in length. Plant cells similar in shape with most cells being rectangular or cube-shaped.

Both animal and plant cells have mitochondria, but only plant cells have chloroplasts.

• Animal cells are the basic functional unit of life for animals constituting all cell organelles that perform a variety of functions to support the animals’ metabolisms.
• Plant cells are also basic functional units of plants constituting all cell organelles performing a variety of functions that support the plants’ metabolisms.

Both plant and animal cells have vacuoles. Plant cells have a cell wall, as well as a cell membrane. In plants, the cell wall surrounds the cell membrane.

How do plant and animal cells differ?