Difference between Plants and Animals (Plants vs Animals)

i) Cell (Plant cell vs Animal cell)

Plants:

• Cell wall: The plant cells have cell wall made of cellulose outside the plasma membrane
• Chloroplast: Plants are green in colour due to the presence of chlorophyll in the chloroplast.
• Vacuoles: Plant cells have large vacuoles filled with sap.
• Centrosome: Centrosome with centrioles absent.

Animals:

• Cell wall is absent and only plasma membrane is present.
• Chloroplasts are absent in animal cells. Animals have no chlorophyll. 
• Vacuoles are absent.
• Centrioles with centrioles present.

ii) Nutrition

• Plants: Plants manufacture their own food (autotrophs) with help of carbondioxide and water in the presence of chlorophyll and sunlight. Non green plants are exceptions.
• Animals:Animals cannot manufacture their on food (heterotrophs). They depend on plants or other animals for their food. Euglena is an exception.

iii) Stored food

• Plants: Plants need no digestive system as they synthesize their own food.They store carbohydrate in the form of Starch.
• Animals: Animals have digestive system to digest the food before it is absorbed by the alimentary canal. They store carbohydrate in the form of Glycogen.

iv) Movements

• Plants: Fixed in the soil (Except Algae like- Chlamydomonas, Volvox) But organs like leaves and bud do show slight movements.
• Animals: They move around for food (except-Corals and Sponges).The organs make movement.

v) Growth

• Plants: The meristematic zones present in the tips of the root and stem divide and growth take place throughout life (indeterminate growth).
• Animals: No meristematic zones, the various organs and the organs as a whole grow up to a limit (determinate growth

vi) Respiration

• Plants: Exchange of gases takes place through stomata.
• Animals: Have respiration through their skin, lungs, gills etc. Some use O2 of the air while others use oxygen of the surrounding water

vii) Excretion

• Plants: They secrete harmless products which are stored in their bodies.
• Animals: They excrete ammonia, urea, uric acid and other wastes which get eliminated through excretory systems.

viii) Reproduction

• Plants: They reproduce asexually (by spores) and vegetative methods (spores and vegetative methods)
• Animals: They reproduce by asexual and sexual method of reproduction. The anomaly belonging to lower groups like Amoeba reproduce by only asexual methods

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ix) Response

• Plants: They do not have nervous system and sense organs. So, the responses to stimuli like touch, light, are slow.
• Animals: They have the nervous system and sense organs. The response to stimuli are quick.