This week, the whole three days were devoted to the parts of animal, plant, and bacteria cells. We discussed simalarities and differences between the three. We used triple ven diagrams to compare the three cells. The animal and plant cells had almost all of the same organells. Their shapes though were completly different. A plant cell is like a brick and all the cells fit together. Animal cells have a sphere shape.



The three main organell differences between animal and plant cells are the chlorolplasts, cell wall, and vacuole. Chlorolplasts are only in plant cells. They create chlorophil to make the plant green. Only the plant cells has the cell wall and they use it to create their brick shape. The vacuole is in both cells, but it is bigger in the plant cell. The larger vacuole fills with water and makes the cell rigid. That is why when plants don't get water they wilt. This happens because the vacuole is drying up.



The last thing we did was talk about paramecium. We learned they are animal cells and is covered in cilla to move. We decided it lives in stagnant water like a lake or pond. We looked under a microscope at lake water to see what we could find. The paramecium we found were extremly fast and tiny. All that we couls make out was a clear oval with a black outline.