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Make sketches of animal and plant cells which you observe under microscope.
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Solution
- Plant cell:
- It is usually larger in size. It is hard in nature.
- Plant cells have a cell wall in addition to their cell membrane.
- Plant cell have chloroplast which contains chlorophyll
- Plant cells have large vacuoles. Centrioles are absent.
- Animal cell:
- Animal cells are generally smaller than plant cells. It is not so hard as plant cells.
- A cell wall is absent.
- Chloroplast is usually absent.
- An animal cell may have many small vacuoles.
- Centrioles are found in animal cells.
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