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Diagram of a basic plant cell showing labeled structures including the cell wall, cell membrane, chloroplast, nucleus, chromosomes, cytoplasm, organelles, and fluid-filled space.

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Illustration comparing three cell types: a round animal cell and an irregularly shaped plant cell, both showing labeled organelles, and an elongated bacteria cell with labeled structures such as flagella and capsule.

Side-by-side labeled diagrams of a typical animal cell and a plant cell, showing internal structures such as nucleus, mitochondrion, endoplasmic reticulum, and unique features like chloroplasts and cell wall in the plant cell.

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gas vacuole phagosome food vacuole contractile vacuole cell cell wall chloroplast Golgi apparatus mitochondrion Nitroplast endoplasmic reticulum peroxisome hydrogenosome membrane ribosome

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