Plants and animals are both eukaryotes, meaning they have distinct nuclei. (Bacteria, by contrast, are prokaryotes, which means they don’t have a nicely organized nucleus.)
Plants and animal cells have many other similarities: ribosomes, mitochondria, chromatin, cell membranes, smooth and rough endoplasmic reticula (ER), vacuoles, and Golgi complexes, among some other organelles we’re not studying in this unit. However, there are some fundamental differences between plants and animals on a cellular level:
- cell wall in plants
- chloroplasts (plastids) in plant cells
- large central vacuole in plant cells
- centrioles in animal cells
- some differences in the structure and function of the Golgi complexes
Watch this video for a nice summary, and please do click on the links he posts at the end for a deeper explanation of the topics he covers.
The following video is a bit more ‘scientific’ and uses some nice computer animation to tour plant cells. It’s worth a quick watch, too.

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