Because the walls of neighbouring plant cells cemented together to form the intact plant, are generally thicker, stronger, and most important of all, more rigid than the extracellular matrix produced by animal plants. In evolving relatively rigid walls, which can be up to many micrometers thick. Early plant cells forfeited the ability to crawl about and adopt a sendentary life-style that has exsisted in all present day plants.
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