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What are some structural similarities between animal cells and fungal cells? What are some
structural differences?
Structural similarities between animal cells and fungal cells.
Fungi are closely related to animals than to plants. At the cellular level, both animal and fungi cells are composed of eukaryotic cells. Fungal cells are similar to animal cells in that both have centrioles, which organize the spindle during the process of mitosis.
Fungi and animals cells share a molecule known as chitin. Fungi and many invertebrate animals use chitin a complex carbohydrate for structural purposes. In fungi, chitin is the structural component of the cell walls. In animals, it appears in hard structures such as the exoskeletons of insects and the beaks of octopuses and other mollusks.
Structural differences:
Fungi and animals are very different from each other and classified as completely separate kingdoms.
Fungal cells have cell wall but animal cells don't.
Animals move by cilia, flagella, or muscular structures and organs but fungi don't move under their own power.