Cell Structures

written by Rylee Shuler

We have been studying cell structures in class. At the beginning of the investigation, we knew that cells are the basic unit of life. Plants and animals have some of the same organelles. Plant and animal cells also have organelles in one but not the other; vice versa. My goal for this investigation was to find the type of cells on the unknown slides. The guiding question was, “What are the types of cells on the unknown slides?”

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06/22/22

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My claim is, if the unknown slides have a cell wall, a large vacuole, and a rigid shape, it’s a plant cell. If it has a smooth shape, many small vacuoles, and no cell wall, it’s an animal cell. The figure below explains that slides A, B, F, and G are plant cells, and slides C, D, E, and H are animal cells. Plant cells have rigid shapes, one large vacuole, and a cell wall. Animal cells have smooth shapes, many small vacuoles, and no cell wall. I know this because I looked at the cells through a microscope. This evidence is based on several science concepts. The first one is that more complex cells, like plants and animal cells, have common organelles. Some of the common organelles between plants and animals are the nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi bodies, ribosomes, cell membrane, and mitochondria, but some can be found in plant cells and not in animal cells, like cell walls; vise versa. The most common features in plants and animals are DNA and the cell membrane. DNA is a molecule that holds the information for the cell to survive and makes the organelles know what to do to work properly.

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