Class 11 Botany simulations · Cell: The Unit of Life

Cell explorer

Fly around an animal or plant cell and highlight each organelle to learn its structure and job.

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What to notice

Plant cells have a cell wall, chloroplasts and a large central vacuole; animal cells have centrioles.

Key relation

Eukaryotic cell = plasma membrane + cytoplasm + membrane-bound organelles + nucleus

Try this

Select chloroplast while viewing an animal cell — what happens?

What you can change

• Cell: choose Plant cell, Animal cell
• Highlight organelle: choose Nucleus, Mitochondrion, Chloroplast, Endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, Ribosomes, Vacuole, Lysosome, …

More in Cell: The Unit of Life

• How big are cells?
• Fluid mosaic model of the membrane
• Why cells are small: surface area to volume

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