As more techniques are developed in Cell Biology, we learn more about the great mysteries and secrets that cells hold. Knowing plant and animal cells is very important to understand the functioning of living beings, understand the diseases they suffer, develop therapeutic techniques against these diseases or obtain products of commercial interest.
It is also important to understand the similarity and difference between animal and plant cell. In this Green Ecologist article we explain them easily and with diagrams and tables that help you better understand and study it.
There are various Cell types, but what are they to begin with? The cell is the morphological and functional unit of every living being, with the ability to reproduce, grow, metabolize, interact with other cells and capture signals from the extracellular environment or program its own death. A living being can have a single cell and be unicellular, as is the case of bacteria, or have multiple cells and be multicellular, as is the case with animals and vegetables. Learn more about this topic in this other Green Ecologist article on What are unicellular and multicellular living beings with examples.
In the multicellular organismsCells are not individual compartments but are capable of communicating with each other through signals to coordinate and respond to signals that come from the external environment, so that an organism interacts with its external environment. Cells are also capable of regulating their growth due to the signals they receive and of programming their own cell death due to the accumulation of mutations or malfunctions. An example of the importance of these responses is cancer, when the cell begins to spiral out of control due to its inability to stay coordinated with its environment and to program its death.
But no study on the cell would have been possible without the technological development and innovation in the optical and electronic field that allowed the development of microscopes to observe structures as small as one nanometer.
Thus, after knowing what a cell is, we explain that the similarities between plant and animal cells are:
Is picture of animal cell and plant cell It will be very useful as an outline. Here you can see the main parts of the animal and plant cells, so you can easily see those that are similar and those that are different.
Now that we have mentioned the similarities, we detail that the differences that we can find between plant and animal cells are:
Also, by way of summary, in this table or comparative table of differences between an animal cell and a plant cell you can see it in a simple way. We also recommend that, so that you can expand this information in a practical way, you read this other article by Green Ecologist about the Similarities and differences between plants and animals. And, finally, below the table you can see a video from our YouTube channel with a summary on this topic of animal cells and plant cells.
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