Difference between animal and plant cells

Difference between animal and plant cells

S.No.	Animals Cells	Plant Cells
1	A cell wall is absent	Plant cell is covered by a rigid cell wall
2	Due to absence of cell wall the shape of animal cell is not firm.	The shape is firm
3	A tissue fluid generally bathes the cells	Tissues fluid does not occur in plants
4	Protoplasm fills the whole cell	It is generally peripheral
5	Vacuoles are generally absent if present then they are small	Plant cell has a large central vacuole
6	Nucleus is usually rounded and lies in the centre	It is usually oval and lies in the peripheral cytoplasm
7	Adjacent cells are held together by various types of junctions	Cells are held together by middle lamella.
8	If kept in hypotonic solution animal cell may burst	If kept in hypotonic solution cell swells but does not burst
9	Plastids are absent	Plastids are present
10	Cristae of mitochondria are plate like	These are tubular
11	Golgi complex is commonly a single complex	Golgi complex is made of a number of distinct units called dictyosomes
12	Centrosome is present	Centrosome is absent except in some lower forms
13	Glyoxysomes are absent	These are present in plant cells
14	Lysosome are present	Lysosome are rare
15	Intermediate fibres occur in cytoplasm	Intermediate fibres are absent in cytoplasm
16	Spindle apparatus is amphiastral	Spindle apparatus is anastral
17	Cell division by cell furrow method	Cell division occurs by cell plate method.