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The covering outside a cell membrane is a cell wall.

In plants the cell wall contains the polysaccharides cellulose and hemicellulose, laid over a thin layer of pectin, which is the first part of a new wall to be formed during cytokinesis, near or after the end of mitosis. Some mature plant cells also add lignin, a compound that makes a tissue woody.

In fungi the cell wall has a different composition, including the polysaccharide chitin, whose monomer is a nitrogen-containing derivative of glucose.

Bacteria have cell walls that contain peptidoglycan, a polysaccharide whose molecular structure is stabilized by amino acids forming cross-links between polysaccharide chains. It used to be thought that gram-negative bacteria lacked a cell wall, but they are now known to have a thin one.

Animal cells have no cell wall.

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