What is the difference of animal and plant cells in cell division?

Answer 1

Basically, some organelles are found in plant cells and not animal cells & vice versa.

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The major differences in plant and animal cell division are in the assembly of the spindle apparatus. The site of spindle apparatus assembly is the centrosome. In animal cells, a pair of centrioles is at the center of the centrosome. In contrast, most plants lack centrioles, but they do have a centrosome. In animal cells, a cleavage furrow forms during cytokinesis, which deepens and then pinches the parent cells in two. Plant cells, which have cell walls, do not have a cleavage furrow. Instead, a cell plate is produced in the middle of the parent cell, which grows toward the perimeter of the cell until it reaches the plasma membrane, dividing the cell in two. A new cell wall then forms from the cell plate.

Answer 2

Cytokinesis in animal cells take place by furrowing where as in plant cells it is by cell plate formation.

Centrioles are visible in animal cell during spindle formation where as these are not seen in plant cells.

The dividing plant cells generally have cell wall where as in animals, cell wall is absent.

Answer 3

Depends on how in depth you want to go... The basic difference is just the cell wall in plant cells, other than that the process is overall unchanged for mitosis.

Answer 4

Animal cell division and plant cell division both go through cytokinesis but they are different because plants do not have a cleavage furrow like animal cells do.

Answer 5

the animal cells