They both have cell membranes, although one has a cell wall and the other doesn’t. Plant and animal cells have many differences and each different part is vital to the role they play. They are so ...

Scientists stumble upon a new part of a cell in one of the most studied animals on Earth. ... Now researchers are taking a retrospective look at older data in search of these elusive cell parts.

Animal and plant cells can be visualised using a model. Find out how to make them with Bitesize. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

The growth of new segments (body parts) in marine worms is controlled by a special growth zone, in which special stem cells are located. New segments then emerge by the division of these cells.

Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated more than 1 billion years ago, when photosynthetic cyanobacteria lived symbiotically ...