Animal and Plant cells

[Byung-Ho Kang]

Hi,
Randy asked me to give some comments about your animal cell and plant
cell discussion.
As some of you said, the biggest difference between animal and plant
cells is that plant cells have chloroplast and cell wall while animal
cells don't.
Other big differences include
1) Animal cells can move but plant cells don't.
2) Animal cells divide by pinching off while plant cells build up a
new cell wall between two daughter cells.
3) Some plant cells can be completely dry and come back to life when
soaked with water (plant seeds and pollen grains) but no animal cells
can do the trick.

All the cells on Earth can be classified into two classes, procaryotes
and eucaryotes. Eucaryotes are cells with a nucleus where genetic
material is stored. Procaryotes are cells without a nucleus. In
eucaryotes, the nucleus did not came alone. It came with a set of
organelles (small membrane bags) like mitochondria, endoplasmic
reticulum, Golgi bodies, lysosomes, vacuoles, and so on. Plant and
animal cells are eucaryotes and share many organelles.

Note. Plant cells are not the only cells that have cell wall and
chloroplasts. Fungi, like yeast and mushroom, have cell wall although
their cell wall is made of building blocks different from those of
plant cell wall. Algae and some single-celled eucaryotes have
chloroplasts, too.

[Randy Hollinger]

This is great information. Thank you for being a valuable resource to
our students. - Randy Hollinger

[riley stewart]

This material is very accurate, and it helps us with the problems we
have to pass to succeed . We love the support Dr.Kang!