Mitochondria, from liver, concentrated in a pellet are opaque and distinctly yellow in color but when dehydrated and cleared become a transparent red.

Similarities Between Animal Cell and Human Cell Both have a cell membrane, cytoplasm, and other organelles such as mitochondria, 80S ribosomes, Golgi, and ER. They have an irregular-shaped cell body. Both are diploid and have linear chromosomes inside the nucleus. They form multicellular organisms.

Structurally, plant and animal cells are very similar because they are both eukaryotic cells. They both contain membrane-bound organelles such as the nucleus, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, golgi apparatus, lysosomes, and peroxisomes. Both also contain similar membranes, cytosol, and cytoskeletal elements.

Traas and Sassi1 in a stimulating commentary about the initiation and early development of lateral roots, posited that “plant cells cannot move relative to each other” and that the extracellular, polysaccharidic matrix, the cell wall, which links plant cells together, prevents any form of cell migration or sliding.

Animal cells move. Even in a complex multicellular organism such as a human, many cells are on the move all the time. During development, for example, cells produced in one region of the embryo crawl to other locations before settling down and specializing.

Mitochondria have two membranes (protective coverings) one surrounding the other, called the inner and outer mitochondrial membranes. The inner membrane is highly folded and forms structures called cristae, the machinery for energy generation can be found on these cristae.

The population of all the mitochondria of a given cell constitutes the chondriome. Mitochondria vary in number and location according to cell type. A single mitochondrion is often found in unicellular organisms, while human liver cells have about 1000–2000 mitochondria per cell, making up 1/5 of the cell volume.