How does fertilisation occur in plants?
Ask pupils to record this discussion by producing a sequence of diagrams to illustrate the processes of production and fertilisation of the sex cells in both plants and animals, annotated to describe what is happening. Remind pupils of the structure of sperm and egg cells and how they are specialised for their functions. Elicit pupils’ ideas about whether identical twins really are identical and how any differences between them arise. Outcomes produce a sequence of diagrams showing the process of sex-cell formation and fertilisation, and show, eg by annotations, how genetic information is transferred describe, eg in annotated drawings, some ways in which sperm and egg cells are adapted summarise similarities in fertilisation in plants and animals Objectives that cells have nuclei which contain information that is transferred from one generation to the next that during fertilisation genetic information from male and female parents is combined that the fusion of male and female sex-cell
