All living organisms carry out these seven life processes:
Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Nutrition, Excretion, Reproduction, and Growth.
Animal and Plant cells
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Animal and plant cells share:
A cell surface membrane, cytoplasm, and a nucleus.
Plant cells don't share these with animal cells:
A cellulose cell wall, a large vacuole, chloroplasts, and the starch storage granules.
Animal cells don't have anything that they share with plant cells
Specialised cells
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CILIATED EPITHELIAL CELLS can trap dust and microbes and move them out of the breathing system.
MUSCLE CELLS can use energy to get shorter - when they do this they can move bones.
SPERM CELLS can swim to an EGG CELL so that fertilisation can take place.
NERVE CELLS are long and thin. They carry messages from one part of the brain to another. This helps to co-ordinate all the different activities around the body.
PALISADE CELLS in the leaf contain many chloroplasts and can carry out photosynthesis very efficiently.
ROOT HAIR CELLS can absorb water and minerals from the soil.