What basic difference exists between the life cycle of higher plants and higher animals?
I think the has something to do with how the gametes are formed. In animals, the gametes are formed from through spermatogenesis in males and oogenesis in females. The process the cells undergo is meiosis. In plants however, the formation of gametes have a few more steps. The spore phase, gametophyte phase and finally gametes. So the basic differences that exists between the life cycles of higher plants and higher animals is how the gametes are formed. Higher animals have “one” basic step to forming gametes while higher plants have several.
