Chapter 3: Reproduction in plants and animals

By the end of this chapter you will be able to

• Explain that reproduction is how living things make new living things of the same kind
• Describe how pollen, pollination and fertilisation lead to seeds, and how seeds are spread
• Describe how some plants can reproduce without seeds, by runners, plantlets or tubers
• Describe how the young of animals begin, by fertilisation of an egg
• Explain why many plants and animals produce many seeds or young

You should already know

• The parts of a flowering plant, and the life cycle of a flowering plant, including pollination and seed dispersal (Year 3 Science, Chapters 2 and 4)
• Life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird (Year 5 Science, Chapter 2)

Where this leads

• Growing up to old age in humans (Year 5 Science, Chapter 4)
• Properties and uses of materials (Year 5 Science, Chapter 5)