Cell (Functional unit of life)

Structural and functional unit of life

Structure of a plant cell includes:--

Nucleus

Cell wall

Cell membrane

Cytoplasm

Vacuole - Big

Chloroplast

Structure of animal cell:--

Nucleus

Cell membrane

Mitochondria- the power house / site of respiration

Golgi body

Lysosome

plastids

The difference between plant and animal cells is that Plant cells have a cell wall while animal cells don't have a cell wall.

Centrioles

Cell Theory

  1. The cell is the smallest unit of structure of all living things
  1. The cell it the unit of function of all living things
  1. All cells arise from pre-existing cells

There are 2 types of cells which are prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell prokaryotic cells dont have a well defined nucleus so its nucleus is called nuclei and eukaryotic cell has a well defined nucleus

vacuole - Small

  1. They are the building blocks of the body

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red blood cells

white blood cells

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