Plant cell is rigid while animal cell comparatively soft. - Vidyadip

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Plant cell is rigid while animal cell comparatively soft.

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Answer

$-$Cell wall is outermost layer / envelope in a plant cell.
$-$It provides rigidity to plant cell.
$-$Animal cell has cell membrane as outermost layer.
$-$Animal cell does not have cell wall.
$-$So, due to the presence of cell wall plant cell is rigid and because of absence of cell wall animal cell is soft.

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