NEET BIOLOGY

CELL STRUCTURES AND FUNCTION

CELL STRUCTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A typical animal cell is spherical in shape.
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Animal cells lack rigidity, so they tend to have round and irregular shapes. The appearance of animal cells often changes greatly. The cell wall allows high pressure to build inside the plant cell without breaking.

Detailed explanation-2: -Animal cells are mostly round and irregular in shape while plant cells have fixed, rectangular shapes. Plant and animal cells are both eukaryotic cells, so they have several features in common, such as the presence of a cell membrane, and cell organelles, like the nucleus, mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum.

Detailed explanation-3: -An animal cell is usually irregular and round in shape. This is primarily due to the absence of the cell wall, which is a characteristic feature of plant cells. Furthermore, animal cells do not have plastids as animals are not autotrophs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ovum is one spehircal cell in human body.

Detailed explanation-5: -Animal cells come in many different shapes and sizes. The shapes of cells have evolved to help them carry out their specific function in the body, so looking at a cell’s shape can give clues about what it does.

There is 1 question to complete.