Animal Cell and Plant Cell

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Introduction: A cell is the basic unit of structure and functions of all living organisms. It can be thought of as a bag in which the occurrence of chemistry of life is allowed, separated from the environment outside of it partially. The essential part of the cell is the thin membrane surrounding it called plasma membrane which is controlling the exchange between the cell and its environment. The membrane is called partially permeable due to its nature of controlling only certain materials to diffuse across the cell and its membrane. ( Jones et al, 2014 ) A cell can be divided into two types of cell, animal cell and plant cell. A plant cell is usually bigger than animal cell. Both cells have similarities such as having nucleus, plasma membrane and cytoplasm. These are all the common features present in both the animal and plant cell. However, a unique structure that plant cells have is cell wall, large central vacuole and chloroplasts which are absent in animal cells. And the structure only unique to the animal cell is centrioles. ( Jones et al, 2014 ) We can now use different methods to study the cell. But the most common way to study the cell used by scientists are microscopes. The structure and organelles of the cell can be observed under a microscope. A microscope is an instrument used to magnify and resolve a specimen so we can take a better look at its structure. The basic principles of a microscope is magnification and resolution. Magnification is the number of times larger an image is than the real size of the object. While resolution is the ability to distinguish between two objects very close together. The higher the resolution, the greater the detail that can be seen. ( Jones et al, 2014 ) There are two fundamentally different types of microscope, light microscope which uses light as a source of radiation while an electron microscope uses
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