Name: _________________________ HR: _______
Science 8: Cells, Tissues, and Organ Systems
Identifying Cells under the Microscope
Date: _____________________
Curriculum Outcomes Addressed:
• Distinguish between plant and animal cells (304-5)
• Explain that it is important to use proper terms when comparing plant and animal cells (109-13)
Identify each of the following as either a plant cell or animal cell, and explain why you chose to classify each as such.
Make sure to use proper terminology when explaining why you chose to classify each the way you did.
Microscopic Image
Cell Type
Plant Cell
Explanation
There is a cell wall; only plant cells have
cell walls - animal cells do not.
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These cells also have a uniform
rectangular shape; animal cells have more
of a round shape.
http://blogs.saschina.org/melisa01pd2016/files/2011/01/Labeled-300x240.png
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Animal Cell
This cell has cilia surrounding it (tiny hairlike structures that help the cell to move);
only animal cells have cilia – plant cells do
not.
It is oval in shape (not rectangular, like
http://faculty.clintoncc.suny.edu/faculty/michael.gregory/files/bio%20101/bio%2010
plant cells would be)
1%20lectures/cells/paramecium_stained.jpg
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Animal Cell
There is no cell wall, and three smaller
vacuoles – white circular shapes (not one
large central vacuole like in plant cell).
The shape of the cell is round (plant cells
have more of a rectangular shape).
http://www.oncoursesystems.com/images/user/9341/10845583/animal%20cell.jpg
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Science 8: Cells, Tissues, and Organ Systems
There is a chloroplast, and only plant cells
Plant Cell
have chloroplasts. Chloroplasts contain
chlorophyll, which is used during
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photosynthesis to convert Carbon dioxide
and water into sugar (energy). The cells
are also green, indicating the presence of
chlorophyll.
The cells are also rectangular.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_detzCStVbk8/TJgErx2eEzI/AAAAAAAAAEg/sNDyrU1pv_k/s
1600/microscope+chloroplast.jpg
Plant Cell
The cells have a rectangular shape (they
are not circular like animal cells would be).
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The wall between cells is thick (shows
presence of a thick outer cell wall, which is
only present in plant cells).
http://hilo.hawaii.edu/affiliates/prism/documents/PandAcells.pdf
Animal Cell
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The cell shape is round (not rectangular).
There is only a thin outer membrane (cell
membrane), and no thick outer cell wall
(as would be found in plant cells).
http://hilo.hawaii.edu/affiliates/prism/documents/PandAcells.pdf
There is one large central vacuole,
Plant Cell
indicating that it is a plant cell. Animal
cells would have a number of smaller
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vacuoles throughout. There are also
chloroplasts surrounding the vacuole (not
labeled). The cell also has a thick outer cell
wall in addition to the thin inner cell
http://biology.unm.edu/ccouncil/Biology_124/Summaries/Cell.html
membrane (animal cells have no cell wall).
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Science 8: Cells, Tissues, and Organ Systems
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