Free Interactive · TEKS 8.13A

Cell Explorer

Click through a plant and animal cell to find out what each part does.

Try this. Switch between the plant and animal cell. Click every glowing dot to label all the parts. Watch which dots disappear when you switch to the animal cell.

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Click a glowing dot on the cell to start.

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Try this. Sort each part into the right box. Some parts are in both kinds of cells. Two of them belong only to plant cells. Pick a part, then pick its box.

Plant cell, with a cell wall and green chloroplasts — Plant cell

Animal cell, with no cell wall and no chloroplasts — Animal cell

Found in BOTH cells

Plant and animal cells both have these

PLANT cells only

Animal cells do not have these

Try this. Read each job. Click the part of the cell that does it. No labels this time, so think about what you learned.

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Click the matching part on the cell.

Challenge. Eight questions to show what you know about cell organelles. You can try a question again until you get it right.

Question 1 of 8