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Vacuoles are present in both animal and plant cells, however their size greatly differs.

Notice the picture to the left, this is an animal cell. There are multiple vacuoles and all of the are extremely small. Now, observe the image to the right. This is a plant cell. Immediately you showed notice the difference in size of the Vacuole. It is much large than in an in an animal cell and in fewer numbers.

Vacuole

In a plant cell the vacuole can take up almost 80 - 90% of the cell. Its main function is as a storage molecule. It is can store nutrients, waist and contains a large amount of water.

The Vacuoles function can vary, in some cells it provides physical support (turgidity), intracellular digestions (food vacuoles) or water balance (contractile vacuoles).  

Animal cell

Plant cell

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