THREE MAIN COMPONENTS OF

A CELL CELL TYPES

•PLASMA MEMBRANE   •PROKARYOTIC CELLS  CELL

SEPARATES THE CELL FROM ITS EXTERNAL

ENVIRONMENT, AND IS SELECTIVELY PERMEABLE
Prokaryotes are unicellular organisms that
(CONTROLS WHAT GETS IN AND OUT). IT PROTECTS
lack organelles or other internal membrane-
THE CELL AND PROVIDES STABILITY.
•CYTOPLASM bound structures. Therefore, they do not have
a nucleus, but, instead, generally have a single
chromosome: a piece of circular, double-
stranded DNA located in an area of the cell
calledAdd a little Most
the nucleoid. bit ofprokaryotes
body texthave a
cell wall outside the plasma membrane.
Cytoplasm contains molecules such as enzymes •EUKARYOTIC CELLS 
which are responsible for breaking down waste
A cell is the smallest unit of life. Cells
and also aid in metabolic activity. Cytoplasm is
responsible for giving a cell its shape. are often called the "building blocks of
life". The study of cells is called
•NUCLEUS
cellbiology or cellular biology.
Cellsconsist of cytoplasm enclosed
within a membrane, which contains
Eukaryotic cells are cells that contain a many biomolecules such as proteins and
nucleus and organelles, and are enclosed by a nucleic acids.
plasma membrane.  Eukaryotic cells are
larger and more complex than prokaryotic
cells, which are found in Archaea and
The nucleus is the "control Bacteria, the other two domains of life.
center" of the cell, for cell
metabolism and reproduction.
 DIFFERENCE AND
ANIMAL CELL PLANT CELL SIMILARITIES OF ANIMAL
AND PLANT CELL

Animal cells are mostly round and irregular in

shape while plant cells have fixed, rectangular
shapes.
Animal cells are typical of the eukaryotic cell, Plants are unique among the eukaryotes,
Plant and animal cells are both eukaryotic
enclosed by a plasma membrane and containing organisms whose cells have membrane-enclosed
cells, so they have several features in common,
a membrane-bound nucleus and organelles. nuclei and organelles, because they can
such as the presence of a cell membrane, and cell
Unlike the eukaryotic cells of plants and fungi, manufacture their own food. Chlorophyll,
organelles, like the nucleus, mitochondria and
animal cells do not have a cell wall. This feature which gives plants their green color, enables
endoplasmic reticulum.
was lost in the distant past by the single-celled them to use sunlight to convert water and
organisms that gave rise to the carbon dioxide into sugars and carbohydrates,
Plant cells are the basic building block ofplant
kingdom Animalia. Most cells, both animal and chemicals the cell uses for fuel.
life, and they carry out all of thefunctions
plant, range in size between 1 and 100 Like the fungi, another kingdom of eukaryotes,
necessary for survival. Photosynthesis, the
micrometers and are thus visible only with the plant cells have retained the protective cell
making of food from light energy, carbon
aid of a microscope. wall structure of their prokaryotic ancestors.
dioxide, and water, occurs in the chloroplasts
The basic plant cell shares a similar
of the cell.
construction motif with the typical eukaryote
cell, but does not have centrioles, lysosomes,
intermediate filaments, cilia, or flagella, as
does the animal cell. Plant cells do, however,
have a number of other specialized structures, GROUP MEMBERS:
including a rigid cell wall, central vacuole, IRVIN JACOB AQUINO
DANE MANALASTAS
plasmodesmata, and chloroplasts. 
PAUL VIRTUDAZO
AARON NATHALIEL QUINDOZA
FERDINAND ACLAN