plant cells

• Plant cells contain structures that animal cells do not, including chloroplasts, cell walls, and large permanent vacuoles
• Plant cells

  • Have a regular shape, unlike animal cells which can easily change shape
  • Are packed full of green structures (chloroplasts)
• Chloroplasts

  Contain chlorophyll and are the sites of photosynthesis
• Cell wall

  Made from cellulose, strengthens the cell
• Vacuole

  Large permanent structure filled with cell sap, helps give the plant cell its shape
• Structures common to both plant and animal cells

  • Nucleus
  • Cytoplasm
  • Cell membrane
  • Mitochondria
  • Ribosomes
• Plants are eukaryotes, like animals
• Nucleus contains genetic material
• Cytoplasm is where chemical reactions take place
• Cell membrane controls what molecules enter and leave the cell
• Mitochondria carry out aerobic respiration
• Ribosomes are the site of protein synthesis