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Kingdom Plantae vs. Kingdom Animalia The cellular biology of a plant cell has some key differences from an animal cell, which make the identification much simpler. Plant cells contain a rigid non-living cell wall that lies outside the cell membrane and is made of cellulose, while animal cells contain a plasma membrane but have no cell wall. Plant cells also contain plastids which help to give the plants their colors, along with a large central vacuole that contains mostly water. Animal cells have small and few vacuoles yet they contain lysosomes which help excrete waste, and a centrosome near the nucleus that forms the cytoskeleton.
Plants are stationary in soil, and they absorb water for growth and can prepare their own food (). Animals

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