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Animal and Plant Cell

This document discusses the key differences between plant and animal cells. It notes that plant cells have a cell wall and chloroplasts which allow them to carry out photosynthesis, while animal cells do not have these structures. The document also describes an experiment where onion skin cells and human cheek cells are observed under a microscope. This reveals that onion cells have a regular shape, cell wall, and large central vacuole, while cheek cells are irregularly shaped and lack a cell wall and have only small vacuoles.

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Animal and Plant Cell

This document discusses the key differences between plant and animal cells. It notes that plant cells have a cell wall and chloroplasts which allow them to carry out photosynthesis, while animal cells do not have these structures. The document also describes an experiment where onion skin cells and human cheek cells are observed under a microscope. This reveals that onion cells have a regular shape, cell wall, and large central vacuole, while cheek cells are irregularly shaped and lack a cell wall and have only small vacuoles.

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Biology-animal and plant cell

The cell is the basic unit of all organism. It is made up of a cell membrane that encloses the
cytoplasm.

Contained within the cytoplasm are not only the nucleus but also organelles, whose specific
functions help the cell perform a range of activities.

While plant and animal cells are similar, the plant cell has, in addition to the cell membrane,
another boundary that separates it from its external environment. This is called the cell wall.

As most plant cells carry out photosynthesis - the synthesis of organic substances - they contain
chloroplasts.

In plant cells, vacuoles also tend to be larger in size and smaller in number than those found in
animal cells.

Onion Skin Cell


Cheek Squamous Epithelial Cells

Typical Plant Cell

Typical Animal Cell

In the laboratory, you have learned how to prepare a microscope slide of human cheek cells
as well as the epidermal cells of onions.

a) The differences you can observe between the two types of cells in term of the following:
 Shape
Onion cells have a regular shape while cheek cells have an irregular shape.

 Presence or absence of cell wall


Onion cells have a cell wall while cheek cells do not.

 Presence or absence of vacuoles


Onion cells have a large vacuole while vacuoles in cheek cells, if present, are small.

b) Can you observe chloroplasts in the epidermal cells of onions? Explain your answer.
No chloroplasts can be observed in the epidermal cells of onions because epidermal cells do not
carry out photosynthesis.

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