• Question: how can you gas the difference between an plant cell and animal cell

    Asked by xwinterchickx to Tom, Dalya on 19 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Dalya Soond

      Dalya Soond answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      Presumably you would be allowed to look under a microscope?

      A plant cell has a cell wall (which will look like a double membrane).

      It also will not have other structures that an animal cell would such as centriole, lysosomes, cilia and flagella. However, you would need a very powerful microscope to distinguish these. Actually, an electron microscope would be the best microscopic method for this. Electron microscopy uses a beam of electron instead of light to visualise a sample.

    • Photo: Tom Crick

      Tom Crick answered on 19 Jun 2011:

      Great answer by Dalya — hopefully you are able to use a microscope, because they look very different e.g. plant cell v animal cell.

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