Difference between Animal Cell and Plant cell - 16 Key Major Differences

Animal Cell Vs Plant cell

Major structural differences between animal cells and plant cells include -             

Parameters	Animal Cell	Plant Cell
1.  Cell wall	Absent	Present (formed of cellulose)
2.  Shape	Round (irregular shape)	Rectangular (fixed shape)
3. Vacuole	One or more	One large central vacuole takes up to 90% of cell volume.
4. Centrioles	Present in all animal cell	Only present in lower plant form example, Chlamydomonas
5. Chloroplast (Plastid) (amyloplast)	Absent	Plant cells have chloroplast
6.  Plasma membrane	Only cell membrane	Cell wall and cell membrane
7. Flagella	Present in some cells example, Mammalian sperm cell	Present in some cells (example. Sperm of bryophytes and pteridophytes, cycads, and ginkgo).
8. Lysosomes	Lysosomes occur in the cytoplasm	Lysosomes are usually not evident (not clearly seen)
9. Cilia	Present	Most plant cells do not contain cilia (rare)
10. Nucleus	Nucleus in center	Nucleus on the side
11. Plasmodesmata	No Plasmodesmata	Has Plasmodesmata
12. Size	Small in size (10-30 micrometer in length)	Larger than the animal cell (10-100 micrometer in length).
13.  Peroxisome	Present	Absent
14. Centrosome and centrioles	Present (have paired centrioles within centrosome)	Absent
15. Cholesterol	Present in the cell membrane	Absent
16. Glyoxysome	Not found	Present

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