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Comparing animal and plant cells
Plant cells have a cell wall in addition to a cell membrane, whereas animal cells have only a cell membrane. Plants use cell walls to provide structure to the plant. Plant cells contain organelles called chloroplasts, while animal cells do not. Chloroplasts allow plants to make the food they need to live using photosynthesis. Created by Khan Academy.
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- What's the difference between cytoplasm and cytosol?
I tried to search it up but it seemed like everyone was saying different things.(43 votes)- Cytoplasm is usually defined as basically everything inside the cells except for the nucleus, including the liquid inside the cells, the organelles bound in that liquid, and the liquid inside the organelles. Cytosol is that liquid medium that binds all the organelles.
So cytosol is the liquid in the cell. Cytoplasm is almost everything inside the cell except the nucleus; so cytosol is part of the cytoplasm.
Does that help?(88 votes)
- A yellow bell pepper isn’t green. So does that mean there’s no chloroplast? It’s still a plant!(10 votes)
- As for if the pepper itself has chloroplasts within its cells, I don't believe so for it does not need to go through photosynthesis, but the stalk the pepper grows on does! And there for it is green.
Hope this was helpful.(26 votes)
- what is cytoplasm(6 votes)
- A cytoplasm is the fluid inside a cell but outside the cell's nucleus. Most chemical reactions in a cell take place in the cytoplasm.(15 votes)
- Is cytosol amd cytoplasm the same thing?(8 votes)
- Cytosol is the intracellular fluid present within the cytoplasm. Cytosol is often confused with cytoplasm but one must realise that both are different entities.
Cytoplasm is the liquid component of the cell which is all the contents of the cell except the nucleus. The cytosol is located in the cytoplasm and is made up of water, ions, molecules, and proteins.(6 votes)
- Would the lions mane, the hair stuff around the head, have the same cell structure as the rest of the plant? Because isn't it just hair? I dont think hair is living. Or is it?(3 votes)
- Uh, I don't completely understand your question. Animal hair would not have anything like the structure of a plant. Did you mean to say animal instead?
The part of hair that we can see is dead. But so is the top layer of an animal's skin. However, underneath, in the part we can't see, hair is very much alive (as is our skin). Hair grows when those cells die and are pushed to the surface of the animal's skin by the living cells being created underneath.
As to whether it has the same cell structure, not quite. Keep in mind, what we call the basic structure of an animal cell is just a general term. Different types of cells are organized in different ways to perform different tasks. Every type of animal cell is slightly different, and no two types have the same structure. Just a similar one. So hair has its own structure to perform its job (hair is actually part of the sensory system, helping our touch on an animal's body). But in essence, it is similar to other animal cells in the way they are similar to each other.
Does that answer your question?(17 votes)
- is cytosol the same thing as cytoplasm?(6 votes)
- Yes! They both are the liquid-like membrane that holds all the organelles in place.(8 votes)
- She forgot about vacuole(9 votes)
- why is a vacuole and I think she will explain that further in this unit(1 vote)
- Can dust particles have the same cells as plants?(3 votes)
- dust isn't alive so dust doesn't innately have cells. I think dust could really depend on where you are collecting it from and could potentially contain cells in it. maybe someone else could answer this better or maybe I'm not understanding your question.(11 votes)
- What about plants that aren't green?(4 votes)
- All plants are green because they all need to go through photosynthesis.
Vegetables or fruits the plant produces do not however need to photosynthesize, there for don't need chloroplasts, and aren't usually green.
There are some plants that don't appear green (such as red cabbage) but are still green on the inside.
Some organisms, such as mushrooms, that are not green can be mistaken for a plant but aren't and so don't photosynthesize.
I hope this answered your question.(6 votes)
- what is a cell membrane(3 votes)
- A cell membrane is the protective layer of the cell. It also controls what comes in and out of it.(4 votes)
Video transcript
- [Instructor] So let's play
a game of Spot the Difference. Now, if you were asked
to spot the difference between these two pictures, you'd probably laugh and
say, "That's too easy." Because it's obvious that this
picture of a lion on the left is nowhere close to
looking like the picture of a green fern plant on the right. What's more, a lion and a fern not only look completely different, they also function differently. But what if I told you that
if we zoomed in really close and compared the lion's
cells with the fern's cells, they'd actually share many similarities? An animal cell and a plant cell
have several common features as well as a few key differences. In this video, we're going
to spot the similarities and the differences between
the two types of cells, and talk about their
functions inside the cells. So, first off, let's take
a look at some cell models. Here on the left is an animal cell, and on the right is a plant cell. First, let's try and identify the things that both animal and plant
cells share in common. If you recall, both animal and plant cells have a cell membrane, which acts like a gate
to control what enters and leaves the cell. Animal cells and plant cells also have this jelly-like
substance called the cytosol, which contains organelles
or small compartments with specific functions inside the cell. Animal and plant cells share
several common organelles, two of which include the
nucleus and the mitochondria. The nucleus within each cell type serves as an information database
to store the cell's genes, while the mitochondria act as
factories to break down sugars and release energy that the cells can use. So now that we've identified some features found in both kinds of cells, let's look closer to spot
the fundamental differences between animal and plant cells. As you can see in this diagram, plant cells have an
additional layer of material that surrounds the cell membrane. This is called a cell wall, which makes the plant cell
more structured and stiff. Think of a celery stalk compared to a raw piece
of chicken or fish. The animal muscle tissue is floppy while the celery stalk is firm. That's cell walls in action. Also, plant cells have
these special organelles called chloroplasts, which
are what give plants, like the fern we saw, their green color. Chloroplasts are the
site of photosynthesis, which is how plants make their own food in the form of sugars. If the word sugar rings a
bell, you're on the right track because I mentioned
earlier that mitochondria are responsible for breaking down sugars. In plant cells, chloroplasts
and mitochondria are like good buddies that help each other and work together. Chloroplasts make sugars
through photosynthesis and mitochondria convert
the sugars into energy that, ultimately, the plant can use. Both cell walls and chloroplasts
are found in plant cells but not animal cells, such
as the ones in you and me. And luckily for you and me,
this means we aren't green. In summary, we just identified
several similarities and differences in our comparison
of animal and plant cells. While both cell types
have a cell membrane, cytosol, a nucleus, and mitochondria, plant cells have a cell wall that makes them stiff and rigid,
think about celery stalks, and they have chloroplasts, which makes sugars and give
plants their green color. All of these are just a handful of the similarities and differences between plant and animal cells. As you go forward in your biology journey, you'll probably learn about a lot more. But the differences that we've covered are a big part of what
makes plant and animal cells so distinct and unique from each other. These differences are why
we don't see green lions that photosynthesize using chloroplasts or floppy raw veggies with cell
membranes but no cell walls. - Now I hope that you
have a clear understanding of the different cell parts in
both animal and plant cells, and that spotting the
differences between the two will be easy breezy.