What are 5 important facts about plant cells?
Their distinctive features include primary cell walls containing cellulose, hemicelluloses and pectin, the presence of plastids with the capability to perform photosynthesis and store starch, a large vacuole that regulates turgor pressure, the absence of flagella or centrioles, except in the gametes, and a unique . Each plant cell will have a cell wall, cell membrane, a nucleus, smooth and rough endoplasmic reticulum, golgi apparatus, ribosomes, plastids, mitochondria, vacuoles, and various vesicles like peroxisomes. All of these organelles will be held in the cytoplasm and surrounded by the cytoskeleton.