One of the many good things about spring is that without it, and without the absence imposed by fall and winter, we flawed mortals might fail to appreciate the beauties around us. So much of the wonder of spring is found in the return of what was absent.
Although, the overall function of the cell is the same, there are some important differences between animal and plant cells. The first difference is that plant cells have an organelle called chloroplast. Chloroplasts contain a pigment called chlorophyll (which gives the plant its green color).
Unlike the plant cell, this matrix is not a cell wall which is quite strong and thick in plants. This is one of the primary differences in the two types of cells. Plant cells have a cell wall and animal cells do not have cell walls. Animal cells have an extracellular matrix or ECM (Raven, 82). The other method you can use to learn the differences in the two types of cells is to sketch each cell and label all structures, interior and exterior.