ANIMAL AND PLANT

CELLS

SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES

LEARNING COMPETENCIES:

1) Differentiate plant and animal cells according

to presence or absence of certain organelles

2) Explain why the cell is considered the basic

structural and functional unit of all organisms.
 WHAT
CHARACTERISTICS DO
ALL LIVING THINGS
SHARE?
WHAT IS A
CELL?
HOW WAS THE
CELL
DISCOVERED?
THE CELL AND ITS BEGINNING
• ROBERT HOOKE
- English scientist who discovered cell
- devised one of the earliest microscope
- first observed cell using thin slice of cork from a
bark of an oak tree
Hooke discovered many tiny pores that he named
“cellulae”, latin word for a “small room”. He
described the cells as tiny boxes or a honeycomb and
thought that cells only existed in plants and fungi.
THE CELL AND ITS BEGINNING
• ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK
- a Dutch naturalist, was credited to be the first
to study magnified cells
- first invention was a simple microscope with
one lens
-observed pond water and discovered moving
single celled organisms which he called
“animalcules”, meaning “little animals”
WHAT IS THE
CELL THEORY
ABOUT?
DEVELOPMENT OF THE CELL THEORY
• 1838 – German Botanist, Matthias Schleiden,
concluded that all plant parts are made of cells
• 1839 – German Physiologist, Theodore Schwann,
stated that all animal tissues are composed of cells
• 1858 – German Physician, Rudolf Virchow, after
extensive study of cellular pathology, concluded
that cells must arise from pre-existing cells
 THE CELL THEORY
All organisms are composed of one or
more cells.
Cells are the smallest and basic units of
structure and function in living organisms.

Cells arise only from pre-existing cells.

WHAT ARE THE
TWO BASIC
TYPES OF A
CELL?
OVERVIEW

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ANIMAL CELL VS. PLANT CELL
HOW DO CELL PARTS
HARMONIOUSLY
FUNCTION TO KEEP
THE CELL ALIVE?
ACTIVITY
 GROUP ACTIVITY:
Divide the members of the class into 14 groups with the following assigned
cell parts:

Group 1: Cell membrane Group 8: Endoplasmic reticulum

Group 2: Cell wall Group 9: Golgi apparatus
Group 3: Cytoskeleton Group 10: Vacuoles
Group 4: Nucleus Group 11: Cytoplasm
Group 5: Mitochondria Group 12: Lysosomes
Group 6: Plastids Group 13: Perixosomes
Group 7: Centrioles and centrosomes Group 14: Cilia and Flagella
GROUP ACTIVITY:
Directions:
Do an internet research about the structure or
appearance and function of cell part assigned to
you. After the research, prepare a short
infographic poster to highlight the assigned cell
part. On the next meeting, one representative
from each group will present their work.