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Reproduction in plants

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  • BQ02 Biology: How do living things grow and reproduce?

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This unit explores plant reproduction, including flower structure, pollination, fertilisation, seed formation, and dispersal mechanisms. It highlights the role of insect pollination in food security. Focus is on planning and conducting enquiries, and ensuring reliable observations.

This unit builds on pupils’ prior learning from Reproduction in humans, where they explored the reproductive systems and genetic inheritance in humans. It deepens their understanding by examining reproduction in plants, focusing on pollination, fertilisation, and seed formation, highlighting similarities and differences across species. This prepares pupils for the next unit, DNA and the genome, where they will apply their knowledge of reproduction to understand the molecular basis of inheritance, exploring how genetic information is stored, expressed, and passed on in all living organisms.

  1. Flower structure
  2. Pollination and fertilisation
  3. Insects and food security
  4. Fruit and seeds
  5. Factors affecting seed germination: practical
  6. Factors affecting seed germination: data analysis
  7. Seed dispersal: practical
  8. Seed dispersal: data analysis

  • Fertilisation is the fusion of gametes.
  • Sexual reproduction involves the nuclei of two gametes fusing together.
  • The nucleus of a cell contains DNA.
  • Plants are producers and form the base of food chains and as such are important to food production.
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