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Biology Term 1 STPM Chapter 2 Structure of Cells and Organelles

Comparison Between Typical Animal and Plant Cells
1. The structure of a typical plant cell e.g. mesophyll cell is as shown in
Figure 2.3.

Middle lamella
Cell wall 2
Smooth Lipid globule
endoplasmic Animal Cells
reticulum and Plant
Golgi body Cells
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Ribosomes
Rough
Sap vacuole endoplasmic
reticulum
Mitochondrion
Chloroplast
Plasmodesma

Tonoplast
Figure 2.3 A mesophyll cell
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2. The structure of a typical animal cell e.g. intestinal epithelial cell is as Remember the generalised
shown in Figure 2.4. ultra structure of animal
cell and plant cell including
a function each of their
organelles (STPM 2000
Desmosome essay).
Golgi body
Microtubule
Smooth endoplasmic
Centriole reticulum Summary
Nucleus
Nucleolus
Mitochondrion Nucleoplasm Comparison between
Rough endoplasmic plant and animal cell
Lysosome reticulum 1. Both are eukaryotic
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with basic similarities in
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Microfilament Lipid globule organelles.
2. Differences in cell
Ribosome
Glycogen surface structures, cell
granule wall, chloroplast, food
reserves and centrioles.
A intestinal epithelid cell
Figure 2.4 A intestinal epithelial cell
Table 2.2: Comparison between animal and plant cell
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Characteristic Animal cell Plant cell Language Check
1 Shape Not restricted, can be Restricted by cell wall • Plasmodesma – singular
altered Plasmodesmata – plural
• Lamella – singular
2 Cell wall and middle Absent Surrounding the cell Lamellae – plural
lamella
3 Plasmodesmata No such pore Present

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