The cell wall surrounds the plasma membrane and provides the cell tensile strength and protection. Plant cells have some specialized properties that make them distinct from animal cells.

Cell structure Description Function Cell type Cell wall Freely permeable layer surrounding cell membrane. The cell wall of plant cells is made from cellulose. This gives them a rigid structure.

Plant cells have a rigid cell structure. They are made up of a cell wall, cell membrane, cytoplasm, vacuole, nucleus, and chloroplasts. Plants feel firm because of their cellular walls.

A Japanese team has developed a technique to insert chloroplasts isolated from algae into animal cells, a feat that could ...

A team has clarified how in plants the boric acid channels, the conduits for the necessary element boron, are transported to the plasma membrane.

The TOC (Translocon at the Outer envelope of Chloroplasts)-TIC (Translocon at the Inner envelope of Chloroplasts) ...

A team of scientists from Monash University has solved the structure ... a cell transporter commonly found in plants (and not ...

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...

There is also evidence that individual nucleotides can spontaneously assemble into chains to make RNA. This is a crucial step ...

An important cell membrane protein is found to have a role in regulating ion transport in plant cells ... also underwent changes in cellular structure that made them more similar to the mutant ...

Most human cells, animal cells, and plant cells contain ... and also has an inner membrane. The membranes are composed of a ...