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No. The cell membrane is there in both animals and plants. The function of it is to protect the cell and control what goes in and out of the cell. This is called osmosis and diffusion (osmosis is the diffusion of water).
The cell wall is outside the cell membrane and is only there in plant cells. It acts as another barrier between the outside world and the inside of the cell while also maintaining the rigidity of the cell. It also filters things in and out of the cell.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 15y agoNo, they are significantly different.
The cell wall is a relatively simple structure, porous to many molecules. Its function is to provide protection and support for the cell within. The cell walls of different organisms are chemically different. Plants have largely cellulose in their cell walls. Fungi have chitin, and bacteria peptidoglycans.
The cell membrane has a complex and highly organized structure. Much of it consists of a double layer of phospholipid molecules, called the phospholipid bilayer. Embedded in this bilayer are proteins of various kinds: enzymes, receptor proteins, and transport proteins (channel proteins and carrier proteins). Between them, the phospholipids and proteins regulate the entry and departure of ions and molecules, whereas the cell wall lets almost anything through!
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∙ 14y agoNo, cell walls are made of cellulose while cell membrane from lipo-proteins. Cell wall is freely permeable while cell membrane is differentially permeable. Cell wall is present only in plants while cell membrane is present in all the cells.
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∙ 14y agoThey are both sorrounding the cell. they provide structure, filter, protection, etc. The cell wall is not in all the cells, nevertheless, those that have it have better protection.
The cell membrane, also servers to provide structure, certain protection; serving more as a filter. The strongest cells are those that have both: a cell membrane and a cell wall.
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∙ 11y agono the cell plate is made of golgi bodies and the cell wall is made of bricks
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Which is a major difference between the cell membrane and the cell wall?
Which is a major difference between the cell membrane and the cell wall
What is one main difference between the cell wall and the cell membrane?
The cell wall is more rigid than the cell membrane.
What is the boundary between the exterior and the interior of the cell?
In animals, it is the cellular membrane. In plants it is the cell wall and cell membrane.
What is the organelle that surrounds the cell and protects it?
the cell membrane the cell membrane
What is a cell's barrier between the inside and its environment?
There are more than one kind of cell. If it is an animal or bacteria cell, than the cell membrane separates it. If it is a plant cell, than the cell wall separates it. go to www.cellsalive.com for more on that
Where is the cell membrane in the cells that do not have cell walls?
The cell membrane would be in the same place as the cell wall on one that has one- on the outside of the cell. In cells with cell walls, the cell membrane is in-between the cell wall and the cytoplasm.
What is the things between cell wall and cell membrane called?
nothing. there is nothing in between the cell wall and cell membrane.
Which is a major difference between the cell membrane and the cell wall?
Which is a major difference between the cell membrane and the cell wall
Which organelle protects the animal cell from the outside world?
The cellular membrane or plasma membrane. (same thing) If plants then it is cell wall.
What is one main difference between the cell wall and the cell membrane?
The cell wall is more rigid than the cell membrane.
What a the difference between the cell wall and the cell membrane?
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What is the difference between a cell wall and cell membrane?
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What is the difference between a cell wall cell membrane?
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Is the cell wall between the cell membrane and the nucleus?
No the cell wall is the outside layer of the cell surronding the cell membrane and nucleus.
What is the boundary between the exterior and the interior of the cell?
In animals, it is the cellular membrane. In plants it is the cell wall and cell membrane.
Is cell wall found a animal cell?
No. There is just the cell membrane, cytoplasm and the nucleus. No, a Plant cell has a Cell Wall but a Animal has a cell membrane which is the same thing as a plasma membrane
What is the out cell membrane do in a plant cell?
it is not call ed the outer membrane, its the cell wall. It does the same thing like the cell membrane, but the cell wall is much for stricter with objects coming in and out of cell, what is call, selectivly permeable
