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B 160 Plantcell
B 160 Plantcell
Central vacuole
Tonoplast
Golgi apparatus
Microfilaments
Intermediate
CYTOSKELETON
filaments
Microtubules
Mitochondrion
Peroxisome
Plasma membrane
Chloroplast
Cell wall
Plasmodesmata
In plant cells but not animal cells:
Wall of adjacent cell Chloroplasts
Central vacuole and tonoplast
Figure 6.9 Cell wall
Plasmodesmata
About 80 cellulose
Cellulose microfibrils molecules associate
in a plant cell wall Microfibril to form a microfibril, the
Cell walls main architectural unit
of the plant cell wall.
0.5 m
Plant cells
CH2OH OH CH2OH OH
O O O O
OH OH OH OH
O O O O O
O CH OH OH CH2OH
H
2 Cellulose
CH2OH OH CH2OH OH molecules
O O O O
OH OH OH OH
Parallel cellulose molecules are O O O O O
O CH OH OH CH2OH
2
held together by hydrogen H
bonds between hydroxyl CH2OH OH CH2OH OH
groups attached to carbon O O O O
OH OH OH
O OH O
atoms 3 and 6. O O O A cellulose molecule
O CH OH OH CH2OH
H
2
is an unbranched
Figure 5.8 Glucose glucose polymer.
monomer