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Postby Nelsson on Mon May 26, 2008 7:22 pm

What's the difference between plasmodesmata in plant cell and gap junctions in animal cell?
is it a structural or functional difference? or both?

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Postby daniel.kurz on Tue May 27, 2008 1:21 am

Read:
http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Plasmodesmata
http://www.biology-online.org/9/2_cell_structure.htm

Its mainly structural. Functionally they serve the same purpose.
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