Question 14 — A plant cell and - Questions at the end of the chapter - Chapter 3 - Tissues in Action (Exploration)

(i) The plant cell will have the larger vacuole. Plant cells usually have one big central vacuole that stores water and keeps the cell firm, while animal cells have only small vacuoles or none.

(ii) We assume both are mature, normal cells of the same type of plant and animal, and that the plant cell is not a special one (like a meristematic cell, which has hardly any vacuole).