Plant tissue | Animal tissue |
Cells of plant tissue have cell wall. | Cells of animal tissue do not have cell wall. |
Some tissues are living and some are dead. | All tissues are living. |
Growth is restricted to the tips of stem and roots. | Growth is uniform all over the body. |
They are mainly of two types permanent tissue and meristematic tissue. | They are of four types muscle tissue, epithelial tissue, nervous tissue and connective tissue. |
These tissues require less energy and maintenance as plants do not require movement. | Due to entensive body mobility these tissues require more energy and maintenance. |
They provide strength and support to the plant. | They control all functions. |
Meristematic tissue | Permanent tissue |
These tissues have the capacity to divide. | These tissues have lost the capacity of division. |
They have thin cell wall. | They have thick cell wall. |
They produce permanent tissues. | They are produced by meristematic tissue. |
They contain many small vacuoles in their cytoplasm. | They contain only a single large vacuole in their cytoplasm. |
Intercellular space is absent. | Intercellular spaces is present. |
They contain dense cytoplasm with prominent nucleus. | They contain thin cytoplasm with normal nucleus. |
It is a simple tissue. | It can be simple or complex. |
Characteristic | Circulating, never stationary |
Taste | Salty |
Colour | Bright red |
Volume of blood in average human body | 5- 6 litre |
Characters | Smooth muscle | Striated muscle | Cardiac muscle |
Common names | Unstriped/nonstriated /involuntary / visceral | Striped/voluntary /skeletal | Heart muscle |
Arrangement | In the form of thin sheets | In the form of fascicles | In the form of network |
Shape of the muscle fibres | Elongated, spindle shaped | Elongated cylindrical and unbranched | Elongated cylindrical and branched |
Sarcolemma | Absent | Absent | Thin and indistinct |
Sarcoplasm | Scanty | Abundant | Abundant |
Nucleus | Single in each fibre; situated in the broadest region | Many in each fibre; situated towards sarcolemma | Many in each fibre; situated away from sarcolemma |
Intercalary discs | Absent | Absent | Present separating the nuclei |
Myofibrils | Do not form striations | Form distinct striations | Form faint striations |
Blood supply | Poor | Rich | Very rich |
Nerve supply | Sensory nerves from CNS | Motor nerves from CNS | Sysmpathetic, Parasympathetic nerves from ANS |
Contractions | Slow, rhythmic and sustained | Slow, or rapid arhythmic and not sustained | Slow highly rhythmic and not sustained |
Fatigability | Does not easily experience fatigue | Very easily experiences fatigue | Never Experiences fatigue |
Mode of action | Involuntary | Voluntary | Involuntary |
Occurrence | Almost all visceral organs except the heart | Associated with bones in limbs, also in diaphragm and tongue | Only in the heart and aorta |
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