Areas/Characteristics/Parts
Size
Presence/Absence of
Plastids
Size of vacuoles
Position of nucleus
Reserved food form
Cytokinesis (furrowing
plate method)
Presence of Lysosomes
Amino Acid synthesis
Nature of spindle fibers
Animal Cell Plant Cell
Usually smaller than plant Plant cells are larger
cells, ranging from 10 and than animal cells,
30 micrometres in length. ranging from 10 to 100
micrometres in length.
Plastids are absent. Plastids are present
and come in four
forms: chloroplast,
chromoplast,
gerontoplast, and
leucoplast.
Numerous tiny vacuoles, Huge central vacuole
which are far smaller than that can take up to
plant cells. 90% of the volume of
the cell.
It lies at the center of the It is placed more on the
cell. cell's periphery– in the
cytoplasm.
Glycogen Starch
It takes place by It takes place in the cell
constriction. Formation of plates. Formation of
cell wall. cleavage furrow.
The lysosomes in animal Lysosomes are rarely
cells contain digestive seen in plant cells
enzymes that can break since the plant vacuole
down cellular and Golgi bodies
macromolecules. manage molecular
breakdown of waste
cellular products.
The synthesis takes place in Occurs in the plastids
mitochondria, and it can and is capable of
only manufacture 10 producing all twenty
essential amino acids that amino acids.
can be obtained from food,
whereas the other ten that
they can only
synthesize are unimportant.
These are produced in These are produced in
centrioles. centrosomes.