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A cell membrane or plasma membrane is present in a plant cell and an animal cell. The Cell wall is a layer much thicker than the cell membrane present in plant cells only and the cell wall gives the plant cell it shape unlike in a animal cell,animal cells are irregularly shaped.

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Compare and contrast the functions of a cell wall to the functions of a plasma membrane?

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Why plant cell have both cell wall and cell cell membrane?

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In a plant cell is there a cell membrane?

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What is the outer layer of a cell?

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