Question

Why do animal cells have many small vacuoles and plant cells have 1 or 2 large vacuoles?

Answer 1

The plant cells vacuole is larger compared to the animals cells' because the plants vacuoles takes up 90% of the cells volumes. Vacuole stores food for the organism. In this case since, plants manufacture their own food, it is necessary for it to have a large storage space or a large vacuole.