National 5 Cell structure The functions of cell organelles Cells are microscopic building blocks of unicellular and multicellular living organisms. Animal, plant, fungal and bacterial cells are ...

In some cases the plant cell is able to control this imprecision and produces wall polysaccharides that are relatively homogeneous with respect to chemical structure and physicochemical properties.

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential structures responsible for the photosynthesis that sustains life on Earth by ...

A previously unknown structure discovered in our cells could pave the way toward new treatments for various genetic disorders ...

The diagram below shows the same plant cell, as viewed with the light microscope, and with the transmission electron microscope. Animal and plant cells have certain structures in common.